Tougher penalties for councils and their staff who breach governance rules should be introduced to protect the sector from corruption,a parliamentary inquiry has heard.
Premier Jacinta Allan is supposed to enforce her ministers’ disclosures of meetings with lobbyists. But her latest disclosures were submitted nearly three months late.
Dumped Victoria Police deputy commissioner Neil Paterson has accused Premier Jacinta Allan and Police Minister Anthony Carbines of corruption over his ousting.
The state opposition has referred to IBAC documents which detail secret Victorian and Commonwealth discussions about a proposed renewable energy hub.
In one case a woman who was critically unwell in the intensive care unit waited from 8.30am until late afternoon for surgery to treat a potentially deadly infection.
Victoria’s anti-corruption watchdog has charged 28 more people,months after The Age revealed three VBA staff had been stood down after IBAC raids.
Lobbying at the local government level is not regulated in Victoria,despite councillors often making decisions on multimillion-dollar projects.
IBAC is investigating allegations surgeons at a major Melbourne hospital monopolised TAC patients and billed the insurer for operating on multiple patients at once.
Victoria Police Deputy Commissioner Neil Paterson was involved in a verbal altercation with a Haileybury college parent when he got stuck in school pick-up traffic.
A former mayor of an inner-north Melbourne council traded cocaine for favours and workshopped a bribery scheme to pay unnamed councillors up to $60,000 to buy their votes,a wide-ranging anti-corruption investigation has found.