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Premier Jacinta Allan hopes to extend the state’s lobbying rules to local governments as soon as this year.

Integrity rules could include local government for the first time

Lobbying at the local government level is not regulated in Victoria, despite councillors often making decisions on multimillion-dollar projects. 

  • Broede Carmody and Rachael Dexter

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IBAC is investigating claims that surgeons fraudulently billed the TAC.

‘Really disgusting’: Surgeons probed over ‘operating on multiple TAC patients at same time’

IBAC is investigating allegations surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital monopolised TAC patients and billed the insurer for operating on multiple patients at once.

  • Henrietta Cook, Broede Carmody and Carla Jaeger
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson.

Road rage outside prestigious school snares top cop in corruption probe

Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson was involved in a verbal altercation with a Haileybury college parent when he got stuck in school pick-up traffic.

  • Chip Le Grand
Premier Jacinta Allan

Premier reveals new media monitoring service – her mum

Jacinta Allan told the Melbourne Press Club that she really wanted to be a journalist.

  • Stephen Brook and Kishor Napier-Raman
Former Mayor of Moonee Valley Council Cam Nation.

‘7 grams of the best’: Former Moonee Valley mayor’s cocaine messages revealed in IBAC probe

A former mayor of an inner-north Melbourne council traded cocaine for favours and workshopped a bribery scheme to pay unnamed councillors up to $60,000 to buy their votes, a wide-ranging anti-corruption investigation has found.

  • Rachael Dexter
Detective Sergeant Wayne Dean at the virtual IBAC hearing in 2022.

Policeman who admitted to taking bribes from debt collector quietly resigns

Three years after an anti-corruption investigation was launched, a police officer who admitted to accepting payments for helping a debt collector and convicted criminal has not been charged.

  • Cameron Houston
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UFU secretary Peter Marshall speaking at a rally outside parliament in 2016

Damning IBAC report exposes influence of Peter Marshall and firefighters union

Marshall asked staff at the Metropolitan Fire Brigade to gather sensitive information for him, and the union exerted unprecedented influence over the running of the fire service, report finds.

  • Kieran Rooney
Luke Briggs.

Police officers quizzed over arrest that left builder clinging to life

Luke Briggs is in hospital covered in bruises and on life support with a catastrophic brain injury after an arrest in Hoppers Crossing, leaving his family demanding answers.

  • Cameron Houston
City of Port Phillip.

Cash for access: Councillors ask corruption watchdog to investigate scheme

Most Port Phillip councillors want IBAC to investigate a donation scheme set up to fund a community group that financially backs two of their colleagues.

  • Annika Smethurst and Kieran Rooney
Australian adult industry entrepreneur Maxine Fensom.

Sex appeal: Epic adult industry court case set for another round

The owner of the Maxine’s strip club has warned that a legal battle against an estranged former business partner may not be over yet.

  • Noel Towell and Colin Kruger

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