Greens to push Albanese government to broaden powers of anti-corruption watchdog | LisaVisentin
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Dreyfus has canvassed views on the model in a series of round-table meetings over the past fortnight with crossbench MPs and senators, the Greens, integrity advocates and legal experts, but is yet to consult the opposition.The Coalition will be under intense political pressure to back Labor’s integrity commission legislation, having lost a swag of seats to teal independents who campaigned heavily on the need for a robust watchdog.
“There is a clear conflict of interest if the government of the day unilaterally decides how much [funding] to give an anti-corruption commission, whose job is to be a watchdog over the same government’s spending and behaviour,” Shoebridge said in the letter to Dreyfus. “We’re concerned that [Labor’s proposal] doesn’t say anything about third parties – such as contractors or property developers or big tobacco – potentially having a corrupting influence on public administration,” Han Aulby, executive director at the Centre for Public Integrity, said.
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