Analysis: The question everyone wants answered after CCC chair resigns Alan MacSporran

Perhaps the most shocking thing about Alan MacSporran’s decision to step down was that he didn’t do it straight away, writes Jessica Marszalek.

Perhaps the most shocking thing about Alan MacSporran’s decision to step down following the PCCC’s scathing assessment of the Logan City Council saga was that he didn’t do it straight away.

It’s taken the barrister more than seven weeks to read the room and offer his resignation to a government that hasn’t been able to voice its confidence in him for some time.

Perhaps it’s taken that long for someone with the clinical mind of a lawyer to see beyond the specific content of the report and appreciate the true flavour of it.

But this past week surely honed that following another perceived failure of the CCC in which charges against ex-Moreton mayor Allan Sutherland were sensationally dismissed due to a lack of evidence.

Crime and Corruption Commission chair Alan MacSporran resigned on Tuesday. (AAP Image/Dan Peled

It revived discussion over MacSporran’s future, with Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk repeatedly refusing to say whether she retained confidence in him on Friday ahead of Cabinet’s discussion of the report’s bombshell findings.

Then the PCCC chair came out Saturday to criticise the government’s perceived lack of action in reading “the most damning findings ever seen about the CCC”.

Opposition Leader David Crisafulli hit the airwaves Tuesday morning to call for his sacking, leaving no question the CCC boss was out of friends.

MacSporran has led a long and esteemed career and perhaps he’s been let down by gung-ho investigators.

But it was always untenable he continued after such a blow to the corruption body’s public standing.