Victoria's anti-corruption commission is assessing allegations of taxpayer rorting by a conservative Liberal party faction headed by Assistant Treasurer Michael Sukkar.
An inquiry has stopped investigating the offices of two MPs without hearing from staff about whether they engaged in party political work at taxpayer expense.
A damning May 2017 email by Victorian legislative councillor Beverly McArthur suggests the Liberal Party’s use of “taxpayer office” staff to do political work is identical to the “Labor office rorts".
An independent investigation has cleared two senior Liberal MPs of any misuse of resources after allegations their staff were branch-stacking while on the public payroll.
Assistant Treasurer says he is confident a departmental review of his electoral office employees will find no wrongdoing amid branch-stacking allegations.
When Michael Kroger walked into a radio studio in 2012,he lobbed a grenade that would spark eight long years of open warfare within the Victorian Liberal Party.
The emergence of more emails reveals further evidence suggesting the minister was using taxpayer resources to recruit party members.
This series of stories about the power elite in the Liberal Party,the Party Games,did not arise from any sense of “tit-for-tat” or false balance. It arose because journalist Nick McKenzie followed his nose,and showed a dogged,tireless determination to expose the truth.
Liberals have been talking about the Assistant Treasurer and his group for years,and some have a word for the way he works:“farming”.
Former defence minister Kevin Andrews launched an unguarded attack on the Chinese communist regime in a private party forum.
Labor has used parliamentary privilege to accuse the Assistant Treasurer of running a"thuggish"operation at the heart of the Liberal Party.