For at least 15 years, Transparency International Australia has been recommending that Australia establishes a national anti-corruption agency. A draft legislation was released in 2020 by the then Attorney General, Christian Porter, to set up a Commonwealth Integrity Commission (CIC).The anti-corruption model proposed has been heavily criticised, since its release in 2018 and with good reasons.
The model highlights many weaknesses, in that you would have to question whether the government is serious about addressing corruption. It is limited in scope and transparency. It will permit the investigation of only some criminal offences, unable to make findings of corruption and hearings unlikely to be public. It curbs whistleblower rights of the public, journalists and less senior public servants in referring someone to the Commission.
The Centre for Public Integrity has called the CIC Bill - " A sham to cover up corruption".
https://publicintegrity.org.au/commonwealth-integrity-commission-bill-a-sham-designed-to-cover-up-corruption/
