Mark Hewitt has been stood down by the Anindilyakwa Land Council board and the National Anti-Corruption Commission this week searched its Groote Eylandt office.
The new National Anti-Corruption Commission should not duplicate the work of others,instead it’s coming time for it to turn over some of its own stones and do so publicly.
Documents reveal the country’s former police minister is under investigation over suspicions of bribery.
A proposal for a $500 million data centre next to an ADF base has sparked fresh concerns about the behaviour of politicians after they leave parliament.
Search warrants seen by this masthead show officers were authorised under the Crimes Act to search for “documents concerning any submarine deal”.
The national audit office has released a series of scandalous reports that show our public bureaucracy falling apart,at a cost to us all.
The Australian Federal Police is embroiled in a conflict-of-interest controversy,amid revelations that a high-ranking official is under investigation for improperly awarding a contract.
Australians have been left with the troubling conclusion that the national anti-corruption body doesn’t believe in the importance of its role in a case like this.
Last week,the anti-corruption commission said it would not launch an inquiry into robo-debt. That decision is now the subject of an investigation by the NACC’s inspector.
A high-ranking federal police officer has been suspended after internal affairs officers searched his Canberra home this week in response to allegations of conflicts of interest.
Sources say the AFP referred the leak of sensitive legal material that surfaced in a TV interview with Lehrmann to the anti-corruption commission to determine whether its own officers were involved.