As the federal parliament prepares to debate a national integrity body, the head of one of Australia's longest-serving corruption watchdogs offers some words of wisdom on how it should run.
"I think there's a gap in data collection, so that we're not entirely sure what or how big a problem we might have in misconduct," he said.
It is an area the inquiry was told the CCC was working on, with hopes it would have a greater ability to analyse trends as its body of data grows. Mr McKechnie told the inquiry it was inevitable not all charges would succeed, in part because the CCC requires a lower standard of proof to form an opinion, compared to a criminal case.
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