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Victoria’s anti-corruption body has been examining the conduct of the Premier and a senior public servant over their role in controversial deals that benefited the firefighters’ union.

Victoria’s anti-corruption body will investigate allegations of “serious corrupt conduct” by state MPs over the misuse of taxpayer ...

Victoria’s anti-corruption body has been examining the conduct of the Premier and a senior public servant over their role in controversial deals that benefited the firefighters’ union.

A joint anti-corruption investigation is set to launch public hearings into branch-stacking allegations against State MPs and public officials. IBAC […]

Advertisement “It continues to be the only lockdown, before or since, announced with no notice whatsoever – and giving rise to the obvious impression it was made on the grounds of security rather than public health,” she said on the first anniversary of the hard lockdown earlier this month. “It’s disappointing the state government has not accepted a key recommendation to say sorry for that.” The government accepts mistakes were made but “made no apology for saving people’s lives...

Health CEO’s bogus $300,000 in expenses A former health executive illegally claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars to spend on things like travel and hospitality, a corruption probe found. Crime by Rhiannon Tuffield 30th Apr 2021 3:14 PM A former regional health executive awarded dodgy contracts and illegally claimed hundreds of thousands of dollars in personal expenses, an investigation by Victorias watchdog has found...

Labor fund-raising arm to be reborn under new name amid IBAC scrutiny We’re sorry, this service is currently unavailable. Please try again later. Dismiss Normal text size Advertisement Victorian Labor’s lucrative fund-raising vehicle Progressive Business is closing down, with the Andrews government’s tough donation laws and probing by the state’s anti-corruption commission making its cash-for-access model unworkable. But documents filed with the state government reveal the controversial...

Advertisement Federal Treasurer Josh Frydenberg headlined an exclusive fundraising dinner at the upmarket Flower Drum restaurant last year attended by a key figure in the Casey land scandal who had been raided by Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog just 18 days earlier. The Age can reveal that former Liberal MP turned lobbyist Lorraine Wreford attended the fundraising dinner in October last year as the representative of allegedly corrupt property developer John Woodman shortly after her home ...

The Ombudsman and IBAC are jointly investigating alleged branch-stacking by Victorian Labor MPs and former minister Adem Somyurek. The Ombudsman is also probing the Flemington public housing tower lockdown and investigating whether the administration of state government pandemic relief payments was systemically flawed. Ms Glass said the need to lobby the government every year for funds to operate to a basic standard expected by Parliament, let alone to take on new, complex operations, was corro...

The results of the People Matter survey completed by about 85% of staff were released internally in April last year and have been obtained by Guardian Australia. More than half the survey respondents did not feel psychosocially safe at work, with 14% of staff experiencing bullying, 11% discrimination, 13% sexual harassment, and 7% occupational violence in the past year. The survey showed 55% of respondents intended to leave the organisation in the next two years. In relation to senior leadershi...