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Craig Emerson

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 economist

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For 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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