The Coalition and the Victorian Greens passed legislation through the state upper house that would have given greater powers to the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission.
Parties across the political divide have piled pressure on Labor to reform the state’s integrity agencies by defeating the government twice in one day with upper house bills that would give more power to corruption investigators.
The Greens’ bill would have removed the requirement that IBAC only investigate if it believes criminal conduct has taken place, allowing probes into “grey level” corruption that may not be illegal but still represent serious misconduct.of this type of “soft” corruption and called for expanded powers to tackle it throughout government.
Developer John Woodman, one of the men at the centre of the recently released Operation Daintree report, “How undemocratic is that? Just using their jackboot numbers in the chamber to crush a very sensible bill, that was based entirely on the four recommendations that were made.” Responding to the Greens’ bill in parliament, Symes said the government was committed to integrity but did not believe the changes would deliver the improvements they promised.
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