The Victorian Ombudsman has revealed how the case against Daniel Andrews was dropped as she admitted the red shirts scheme was wrong and unethical but “didn’t cross that line into criminality”.
The public service watchdog tabled her report on Thursday in which she said no new evidence had emerged to warrant another criminal investigation or a referral to anti-corruption commission since her last inquiry in 2018.
Victorian Ombudsman Deborah Glass tabled her Red Shirts investigation to Parliament on Thursday. Picture: Sky News Australia In the Victorian upper house’s referral to the Ombudsman in February, Disgraced former Labor minister Adem Somyurek also called on Ms Glass to investigate the Premier’s role in the affair.
She said that she understood public concerns that MPs could be found in breach of the members’ code but not face any consequences, calling for the framework to be radically improved. “This is about everybody acknowledging that parliamentary integrity is fundamentally a parliamentary problem and could only be addressed by parliament across the board not just by one party,” she said.
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