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https://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Anti-Corruption_Commission_(Australia)
It will not be able to make a finding of criminality.[30] The NACC will have the power to investigate pork barrelling.[31][23] It will not have the power to sack parliamentarians.[32]
So another toothless tiger, newly born, pending it can bite.
If it could do either of those, it would be in charge of government defacto as any offending politicians can just be investigated and sacced with no limits.
IF found guilty of corruption. So it can find them guilty and the government of the day can just ignore it to maintain a majority.
I am not saying it is guaranteed that it would descend into corruption, but surely you can see how a body with the singular power to investigate and judge the only people who can constrain it would be ripe for abuse?
Since they report to a standing committee made up of MPs, giving them the unilateral power to investigate and judge those same MPs gives them a good deal of power.
Alternatively, if those MPs are somehow "immune" to prevent this, then it gives THOSE MPs an outsized bit of power in government.
The biggest danger is if the corruption is used subtly since we wouldn't even notice; it would even look like they are "rooting out corruption"
The alternative is what we have now, the premier of NSW found guilty of corruption with zero accountability or consequences. Nice paid role at Optus as head of government business acquisition.
It remains to be seen what consequences this body will actually be able to dish out. If nothing, then it will stand as yet another powerless enforcement agency
Or, more likely, sternly enforced upon all but the rich.
It's Brereton, have hope.
Is “fair” code for doing nothing?
I hope this goes after those on charge of the NBN fiasco. Buying back useless copper networks and setting us further behind to help Murdoch's pay TV network.
I wish, I'm not sure how far into the past it will be able to use its retroactive powers though. The NBN debacle was at least 10 years ago now
Time will tell