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Labor renews calls for national integrity commission over Sydney airport offsets Lisa Cox © Provided by The Guardian Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP Labor has strengthened its call for a national integrity commission, saying it is needed to investigate the Morrison government’s purchase of more than $30m in environmental offsets related to the development of the western Sydney airport. The shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, made the call after the New South Wales transport department referred its purchases of $50.6m in offsets from the same western Sydney properties to the...

Coalition must ‘urgently explain’ more than $30m it paid for western Sydney airport offsets, federal Labor says Lisa Cox Federal Labor is demanding the Morrison government “urgently explain” more than $30m in offsets it bought for the western Sydney airport, joining the Greens in calling for an investigation. And the New South Wales opposition wants a wider inquiry into the management of the state’s environmental offsets scheme and tens of millions of dollars in offset credits purchased from properties linked to consultants whose company advised the government on dev...