MPs inside both major parties are growing nervous about the final shape of Labor’s anti-corruption commission.
A key act of pork barrelling by the Morrison government that was used by Labor to justify the establishment of a national anti-corruption watchdog may not fall in its remit because it would struggle to fit the definition of serious or systemic corruption, senior sources say.in time for the resumption of parliament on September 5, it remains unclear whether episodes like the sports rorts affair will be investigated.
Before the election, he vowed to sool the new body onto sports rorts, as well as the so-called “car park rorts” in which the Coalition government, at the 2019 election, promised $660 million in grants for commuter car parks, many of which were never built, and were concentrated in Liberal and target seats.
A source familiar with deliberations said the federal commission was unlikely to adopt all the recent findings by the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption that pork barrelling could constitute corrupt conduct in certain circumstances. “The exercise of ministerial discretion is subject to the rule of law, which ensures that it must accord with public trust and accountability principles.
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