What reason, Foxy? You don't say what reason.

ttbn,

Both Obeid and Berejiklian were brought before the NSW ICAC whilst their parties were in government.

You're right the NSW ICAC prosecuted your right hand man Eddie Obeid, and that other right wing good guy Ian Macdonald.

Last time I checked ScumO' had the numbers in the lower house, and with cross bench support, had the numbers in the Senate. That toothless proposal the Coalition put up was designed to fail. Morrison has no interest in a Federal ICAC, the conga line of Coalition Ministers and MP's lining up to "confess their sins" would stretch halfway to Sydney.

You have your opinion of Greens integrity, it stacks up well against Hanson, Palmer and Leyonhjelm, the people you now support. Oh! I forgot your folk hero and pin up boy Corny Banana. His personal expenses, the spending of party funds was astronomical at the last election, doing it tough in five star hotels, munching on caviar and drinking champagne. Did he ever give your membership money and donation back, nah.... there's a sucker born every minute.

ttbn,

You surprised me by pointing out that I hadn't given
reasons for an integrity commission. I didn't think
it was necessary.

However I'll quote just a little from the link I give below
that's worth a read:

"Integrity under pins every promise made by everyone
vying for government. It's what makes sure the investments
in jobs actually end up creating jobs, or the grants being
given for the re-building after floods do go where they are
needed, not diverted into private pockets or spent buying
votes for the sake of votes."

"It's what generates national security - look at how the
looting of public money from the people of Russia has built
a regime so corrupt it's destabilising the world as we
know it."

There's more at:

http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/apr/15/scott-morrison-refuses-to-budge-on-a-federal-icac-but-the-dam-of-reality-will-have-to-burst

Foxy

Well, l said "There is no guarantee that the people working to stamp out corruption are not themselves corrupt", and you said that that is why we need an integrity commission. A bit strange, surely? If we can't be sure that those doing the investigating are not also corrupt, how can that be a reason for having it? There might very well be a reason for it, but who can we trust?

Politicians are like lying car salesmen.
Expecting integrity out of any of them is wishful thinking.

Morrison has generally been a failure in my opinion.
But replacing him with Albanese wont make things any better.
That guys about as clueless as Mr. Magoo.

If Scomo's a failure then Albanese is an accident just waiting to happen.

ttbn,

On an integrity commission they can't ALL be corrupt.
And that's a risk we should want to be able to take.
It's like any committee - you take the good with the
bad. The same applies in politics. Usually it does
work out. We don't have any other option and doing
nothing is certainly not an option. Then you allow
the bad guys to win.