Attorney general Mark Dreyfus insists new commission ‘is not an exercise in political payback’ and says it could tap phones of federal politicians
The National Audit Office found $100m that went to clubs in electorates the“I thought the idea that a decision made in the [former] prime minister’s office when he had no power over the matter, withrevealed by the auditor general, that looked pretty corrupt to me,” Dreyfus told ABC TV on Sunday.
“I’ve been at pains to say … this is not an exercise in political payback. This is a very large integrity reform that’s been described as the single biggest reform for decades. It’s not partisan. It’s there to improve standards in Australian public life.”One of the key issues the committee will interrogate is whether Nacc hearings should be held in public. Dreyfus defended the government’s proposal to only do so in “exceptional circumstances”.
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