If the new National Anti-Corruption Commission gets the same reputation as the NSW ICAC for being a slowcoach, fingers will be pointed at the new commissioner.
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The biggest question over Paul Brereton as the first chief of the National Anti-Corruption Commission is the four years it took to complete his war crimes investigation of special forces soldiers in Afghanistan.
After Justice Brereton’s name emerged from the pack in recent weeks as the likely commissioner, some quibbles reached Hearsay about his “thoroughness”.
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