MARK DREYFUS
SHADOW ATTORNEY-GENERAL
SHADOW MINISTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL REFORM
MEMBER FOR ISAACS
CASH CONFIRMS ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION ANOTHER MORRISON FAILURE
The Attorney-General has today confirmed Scott Morrison cannot be trusted by the Australian people to establish a national anti-corruption commission.
On 13 December 2018, Mr Morrison and his former Attorney-General Christian Porter stood before the Australian people and promised ‘a robust, resourced, real system that will protect the integrity of Commonwealth and public administration’.
Today, more than three years later, the current Attorney-General Michaelia Cash has told the Australian Financial Review Mr Morrison’s word means nothing and there will be no anti-corruption commission under the Liberals.
Senator Cash has confirmed the Deputy Prime Minister’s observation that Mr Morrison "is a hypocrite and a liar” “who earnestly rearranges the truth to a lie."
To this day, Mr Morrison has still not even brought a bill before the Parliament.
Instead, all we’ve seen is scandal after scandal go unchecked, endless excuses and a weak, pathetic, desultory ‘exposure draft’ which was so bad, the Centre for Public Integrity said that if it ever became law it would be ‘the weakest watchdog in the country’.
This is a Government that lives in fear of accountability and what a powerful, independent, and transparent anti-corruption commission would reveal.
It’s now clear that to stop corruption you have to change the government.
Mr Morrison won’t act. Labor will.
In government Labor will establish a powerful, transparent and independent National Anti-Corruption Commission.
MONDAY, 7 FEBRUARY 2022
