Premier Daniel Andrews and Opposition Leader Matthew Guy have gone head-to-head for the only live debate of the Victorian election campaign, four days before polls close. VictoriaVotes
One audience member, Martin, asked Guy to explain what he was accusing Labor of, by campaigning on the premier’s integrity, and how that squared with scandals that have also dogged the opposition leader.
Guy boasted that he was in cabinet when the former Coalition government established the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission , and spruiked his pledge to give the watchdog an extra $20 million in funding and strengthened powers.
Andrews retorted: “Weren’t you just bragging about the fact you set it up, and you were around the cabinet table? Isn’t this your model? ... You can’t have it both ways. There’s got to be some consistency, surely.” Guy twice interjected, “the fight is yours, Daniel”, prompting Andrews to respond: “Try and make sense at least.”
One of the expanded powers IBAC has sought was for changes in the law to jail journalists if they published leaked information from its draft reports,“The second point Matthew made, [IBAC] asked for law changes, one of the law changes they asked for was to lock up journalists if they report on the work that they’re doing. And we said no to that, we said no to that, and we reserve the right as the democratically elected government to say ‘yes’ and ‘no’ about what we’ll put into the parliament ...
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