“There is a point at which discretionary grant programs cross the line into corruption.' Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the national corruption watchdog will be empowered to investigate the pork-barrelling. auspol
New Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says the national corruption watchdog will be empowered to investigate the use of grants programs for politically motivated pork-barrelling, saying such abuse of public money should be regarded as corruption.
New Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus says legislating Labor’s promised national anti-corruption commission is his “paramount priority”.Dreyfus said he was confident the government would soon be in a position to bring legislation before the new parliament, which will set out in detail the remit of the commission and the definition of corruption upon which it will operate, and confirmed pork-barrelling would be within its purview.
Dreyfus did not commit to a timeline for how soon a draft bill would be released, but said the process was not “starting from scratch”. Rather, it would build on the model advocated by independent Indi MP Helen Haines who introduced a widely-lauded integrity bill into the last Parliament, as well as draw on the anti-corruption commissions already operating in states and territories.
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