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Redmond Neck

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We need a National ICAC
Jan 21^st, 2016 at 12:25pm

Not a green myself but think this is way overdue

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It’s time to get money out of parliament, and to establish a national corruption watchdog to clean up politics.

Recent revelations of misuse of political entitlements make it clear that anti-corruption measures at a federal level are inadequate.

Every State now has an anti-corruption commission. The Federal government is now the only jurisdiction without the infrastructure to confront corruption. Every time wrongdoing is exposed, one-off reviews or ad-hoc investigations are launched.

We need a permanent commission to prevent corruption occurring and investigate claims as they arise. The Greens already have a bill to establish a National ICAC before before the Parliament -- now the Labor and Liberal parties just need to support it.

Among other integrity measures, the bill would establish a new Office of the Independent Parliamentary Adviser to advise MPs and Ministers on entitlements claims and the ethical running of their office that the public rightly expects. The adviser will also be tasked with developing a legally binding code of conduct for MPs for the Parliament to adopt.

We urgently need a National ICAC to oversee anti-corruption measures at a federal level in the same way that state ICACs do.

Add your voice to our call to clean up politics:

http://campaigns.greens.org.au/ea-action/action?ea.client.id=1792&ea.campaign.id...

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« Last Edit: Jan 21^st, 2016 at 12:31pm by Redmond Neck »

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Stratos Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 4725	Re: We need a National ICAC Reply #1 - Jan 21^st, 2016 at 12:33pm I agree, although getting majority support would be likely impossible, as it would largely involve the Libs and Labor tying their own noose.
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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74262 Gender:	Re: We need a National ICAC Reply #2 - Jan 21^st, 2016 at 12:35pm Agree .... long overdue. However I won't hold my breath waiting for it
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Its time Gold Member Offline Boot libs out Posts: 25639 Gender:	Re: We need a National ICAC Reply #3 - Jan 24^th, 2016 at 12:04am I will vote for greens is they're dinkum about taking this all the way, clean house , implement jail time deterents then my faith that there some order in the house will be restored. This in collaboration with political donations is a major issue for myself as a voter.
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Re: We need a National ICAC
Reply #4 - Mar 5^th, 2016 at 6:41pm

You're quite right, I mean when has any government body, or govement commission ever been corrupted and/or failed to do it's job, as long as they have good intentions and enough money, they'll put a real stop to govement corruption.

If you should however like to actually solve the problem, consider giving the government less power, and less money (through taxes), only allowing it power in certain, very specific areas, Increasing government is no way to keep government accountable.

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ih8pumpkin New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 43 Gender:	Re: We need a National ICAC Reply #5 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 3:20pm Totally agree.. long overdue.
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Riff Raff New Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 25 Gender:	Re: We need a National ICAC Reply #6 - Mar 12^th, 2016 at 4:12pm Agree also
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Jovial Monk

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Re: We need a National ICAC
Reply #7 - Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 9:18am

Its time wrote on Jan 24^th, 2016 at 12:04am:

I will vote for greens is they're dinkum about taking this all the way, clean house , implement jail time deterents then my faith that there some order in the house will be restored. This in collaboration with political donations is a major issue for myself as a voter.

The Greens are NOT dinkum about this, too great a danger some of their wealthy inner city base would get caught up by a federal ICAC. Just look at the sell out on tax transparency, gotta protect that base.

But they will talk about it heaps. Greens talk the talk but don’t walk the walk and it is because of the Greens that we have gulags but no ETS.

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Re: We need a National ICAC
Reply #8 - Apr 19^th, 2016 at 11:44pm

Jovial Monk wrote on Mar 23^rd, 2016 at 9:18am:

Its time wrote on Jan 24^th, 2016 at 12:04am:

I will vote for greens is they're dinkum about taking this all the way, clean house , implement jail time deterents then my faith that there some order in the house will be restored. This in collaboration with political donations is a major issue for myself as a voter.

The Greens are NOT dinkum about this, too great a danger some of their wealthy inner city base would get caught up by a federal ICAC. Just look at the sell out on tax transparency, gotta protect that base.

But they will talk about it heaps. Greens talk the talk but don’t walk the walk and it is because of the Greens that we have gulags but no ETS.

They're heading in right direction

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