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Pork this way: which electorates have been promised the most in the election campaign?Katharine Murphy: ‘Australia now remembers Scott Morrison can campaign. But will voters forget the past three years?’Read Guardian Australia’s full federal election coverageLabor shadow minister Jason Clare is on ABC Weekend Breakfast. He says Labor’s proposed federal anti-corruption commission would hold full public hearings.
I think most Australians would think if a royal commission can hold public hearings, so should an anti- corrupt commission investigating politicians. It also needs to be able to commence its own investigations.
Under the model Scott Morrison was proposing it can only commence an investigation if it is ticked off by Cabinet. That is something you would expect in an authoritarian regime overseas.
Absolutely and so it should. Think about all the scandals we have
seen from this government, the reporting of $100 million of taxpayers money with sports awards, the allocation of money for car parks at railway stations that don’t exist. It needs to have the ability to go back and look at the rorting of taxpayers’ money by this government.
It needs to look across the board. I am not afraid of that. The best commissions look at whether it is Labor or liberal. People who are watching this one trust and integrity brought back into politics. We have these commissions across the state. They have helped to prevent corruption and weed it out...regardless of where or who the politicians are.
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