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Vale accountability — what ministers used to assume when they crossed the line
Is it really too much to expect from our politicians the same level of integrity expected of citizens?
Where is responsibility in politics now?
- Madonna King
- Crikey
For the rest of us, in living our lives, the consequences are clear and routinely dealt with by courts: drink-driving, jaywalking, speeding, or worse.
In how we work, beefed-up regulators and others govern our behaviour and deliver the consequences for wrongdoing.
In our police services, permanent corruption-fighting bodies plough through misdemeanours to find patterns of behaviour that need to be rooted out and…