Corruption and Crime Commission commissioner John McKechnie gives a frank and honest interview with WAtoday.
Financial Crimes Squad detectives laid the charges against Mark Ainslie,62,after an investigation into alleged corruption and fraud first uncovered in 2022.
The ABC has reported that police killer Nathaniel Train,armed with guns and knives,broke through a border gate near Goondiwindi in December 2021,where local police seized rifles.
The High Court has granted the Crime and Corruption Commission a special leave to appeal against a decision to block the release of a report into alleged misconduct by former public trustee Peter Carne.
Former Liberal MP Phil Edman has narrowly avoided jail after being found guilty of hindering a probe by the corruption watchdog into his taxpayer-funded rendezvous and tipping off his associates.
Parliamentary guidelines ban electorate officers from doing party political work while on the clock but a leaked ‘training calendar’ gives insight into the hours staff in MPs offices spend on Labor Party business.
News of the investigation comes after a former Labor staffer revealed under oath that she used to conduct party business while working for a senior Labor MP.
CCC notices have been served on the Department of Premier and Cabinet,Parliament House,the Labor Party of Western Australia as well as a number of ministers and senior party MPs.
Queensland’s corruption watchdog has detailed the dozens of reports and statements likely hidden under narrowed powers now being challenged.
The court,which fields hundreds of requests each year and reviews few,has been asked to clear up a decision said to “severely curtail” the state watchdog.
A years-long stoush between Queensland’s CCC and a former public trustee has split judges.