Acting Greens leader Tim Read says integrity agencies’ recommendations ‘meshes well’ with party’s policy
and would go further by legislating new rules that allow political parties to qualify for public funding in a bid to stamp out corruption risks.
He said the party would be talking about integrity during the state campaign, namely its platform of introducing a campaign spending cap to close donations “loopholes”, bolstered funding for the Ibac, and lowering the threshold for when the commission can launch an investigation, as well as legislating codes of conduct for lobbyists and ministers.
Brent Hodgson, one of the architects behind “teal” independent Kooyong MP Monique Ryan’s success at May’s federal election, said: “Any time integrity is in the spotlight, it casts a light on the ways that we can improve the way politics is done.” A spokesperson for the Animal Justice party also said the Operation Watts report highlighted the importance of public trust in parliamentarians.
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