A report into corruption in Labor's Big Build projects has been criticized for failing to name those responsible and for offering limited solutions.
It’s hard not to be disappointed by the tepid findings into the corruption and organised crime that became entrenched in parts of Labor’s signature Big Build projects. It happened as a result of the informal racketeering accord struck by the CFMEU , certain building companies and various thugs, gangsters and bikies. But you won’t see any of them named.
In some ways, it’s not surprising the final report is as underwhelming as the denials by politicians that they didn’t know how bad the situation had become on these taxpayer-funded mega projects. If you give a career public servant limited terms of reference to conduct their inquiry— as the Allan government did in this case— they’ll deliver a highly constrained report. As is often the case, what is omitted arguably tells the public more about this scandal than what Wilson has included. They wanted the crooked and corrupt held to account along with those who oversaw the systemic failures that empowered the wrongdoers. Instead, the report mostly tells us only what we already knew and what has already been established by previous royal commissions: that the various state and federal mechanisms meant to combat crime, corruption and wrongdoing in the building sector aren’t working. The entrenched failures of regulators, policing agencies and watchdogs to work effectively together to combat problems in this vast and vital part of Australia’s economy is legendary. If one is being charitable, you could say it is helpful for Wilson to again point this out while offering some obvious policy changes to improve inter-agency co-operation and encourage whistleblowing
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