Two more days until the NSW state election.
NSW has an Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC), a statutorily independent government-funded watchdog with investigative powers that have at least a little teeth to them. The kicking and screaming from the federal Coalition over NSW's ICAC and their long-term opposition to the establishment of anything like that at a federal level illustrates that ICAC is not entirely useless.
Indeed, two of the last four Coalition premiers in NSW have resigned directly due to ICAC investigations, including the current premier's predecessor, Gladys Berejiklian, who was exposed by ICAC as being in a secret romantic relationship with a backbench MP, Daryl Maguire, who himself was a prime suspect in a major ICAC investigation, and has now been charged with a variety of criminally corrupt activity.
Gladys Berejiklian has also been accused (amongst other things) of engaging in pork-barrelling (a.k.a. the abuse of public funds for partisan ends), a practice that #ICAC has condemned as a form of #corruption, yet which Berejiklian herself basically admitted to in parliament, saying (paraphrased only slightly) "everyone does it".
#NSWpol #Auspol #NSWelection #GladysBerejiklian #DominicPerrottet