Thursday, 9 March 2023

Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission

David DAVIS (Southern Metropolitan) (09:58): The Honourable Robert Redlich AM KC has blown the whistle on the corruption at the heart of this government. It is clear that the Integrity and Oversight Committee has been nobbled and there has been really serious interference in the activities of that committee. The letter that is on the Herald Sun website today reveals just an absolute scandal. If that is the letter that came to the chamber and if that is Mr Redlich’s letter – and we have no reason not to believe it is – it shows corruption in the heart of this government, corruption involving the Integrity and Oversight Committee. I think the community has every right to be very, very concerned about the extraordinary developments that are revealed in that letter and the misbehaviour of key members of the Integrity and Oversight Committee. I concur with Ms Crozier and the concerns she expressed about the misbehaviour of the Premier this morning. For him to dismiss Mr Redlich with ‘I’m not going to have a discussion with a bloke who used to run an agency’ – what an extraordinary, arrogant, out-of-touch approach.

Members interjecting.

David DAVIS: I tell you what: I remember another Premier who once dismissed an independent agency, another Premier who made a mistake in that regard, and the people did judge him very harshly in the end. This government’s overweening arrogance shown by this process – (Time expired)