Andrew Murray (WA, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Justice and Customs. Does the government accept that without Western Australia’s Corruption and Crime Commission, Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission and New South Wales’s Independent Commission Against Corruption it would be difficult or unlikely for corruption to be investigated and exposed to the extent it has been in those states? Does the minister agree that corruption does not exist only in those three states? Given the crucial role of these anti-corruption commissions, why is the federal government not interested in setting up a federal anti-corruption commission with a similar charter and similar powers to those state commissions?