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When will there be a federal ICAC or anti-corruption commission? What are the parties promising?
Barnaby Joyce does not think many Australians will actually care that a national anti-corruption watchdog is still a pipedream when they cast their vote.
The Deputy Prime Minister’s latest comments on why the Coalition has walked away from its 2019 election pledge to establish a Commonwealth integrity commission show the political calculation made in the lead-up to the 2022 poll.
- Matthew Doran
- ABC
“If you go down the streets of Muswellbrook, or Singleton, or here in Gladstone, or up there in the Territory, down Tennant Creek, or maybe over in Geraldton in Western Australia, or down in Launceston in Tasmania — you walk along and say, ‘What’s really pressing in your mind?'” he said.
“I think you’re…