The former public servant who developed Australia’s first corruption watchdog has slammed the ICAC decision over Gladys Berejiklian’s breach of the ministerial code.
The Independent Commission Against Corruption handed down its long-awaited report from its probe into whether Ms Berejiklian breached public trust as treasurer and premier when assessing two community grants in the electorate of her former partner Daryl Maguire.
"ICAC acted within the frames of its legislation,” Mr Sturgess told Sky News Australia’s Political Editor Andrew Clennell. “But I think it is wrong and it can lead to people being condemned in very strong terms for things that whilst undesirable were not obviously corrupt at the time that those events occurred.”He also stressed that breaches needed to be condemned, however, they rarely met the standard of corruption.
“To do so to conceal conduct she suspected concerned, or have might concerned, corrupt conduct on the part of Mr Maguire, another member of Parliament, both to protect herself and him from the Commission exercising its investigative powers was grave misconduct,” ICAC said in its report. “There’s an awful lot of suspicious corrupt conduct, going back a decade or two that hasn’t been reported, so there’s an awful lot of that around,” he said.Despite finding Ms Berejiklian had acted corruptly, ICAC has not recommended the Director of Public Prosecutions consider laying charges against the former premier.
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