Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] Under the Morrison government, Australia is becoming a nation in which corruption is tolerated at the highest levels of the federal government. The Prime Minister is fond of quoting the former Chief of Army's statement that the standard you walk past is the standard you accept. From the Chief of Army, it was a statement of moral principle. From this Prime Minister, it's a hollow marketing slogan, because the Prime Minister has made it very clear that the standard he walks past includes conduct by a minister that Federal Court judges described as both disgraceful and criminal, it includes dodgy land deals by government departments to benefit Liberal Party donors and it includes the illegal use of taxpayers' money as if it were a slush fund for the Liberal Party's election campaign.

The Morrison government is so terrified of an anticorruption commission that it refuses to even allow the need for such a body to be debated in the parliament. The work of parliamentary committees—

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