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Taxpayers lose by pulling ICAC’s teeth
If critics of the anti-corruption watchdog’s powers had their way, confidence in the political process would be the true victim.
Craig EmersonFormer Labor minister and economistFor those conservative commentators who claim, following Gladys Berejiklian’s resignation, that the Independent Commission Against Corruption consists of a bunch of zealots, a law unto themselves, I ask: what is worse than ICAC? The answer is no ICAC.
No investigative body is perfect – not the police or military inquiries, nor royal commissions, but that doesn’t mean we shouldn’t have them.
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