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| Jamie Parker MP |
The Greens have proposed a detailed suite of anti-corruption measures including:
* Doubling of ICAC funding;
* Ban on all corporate political donations;
* Ban on pay-per-view fundraising events;
* Improved protections for whistle-blowers; and
* New laws to better capture corrupt conduct by MPs.
Jamie Parker MP says:
"The state of NSW politics is a national embarrassment. We're now in the ridiculous position of having Labor and Liberal MPs bickering in the floor of Parliament over which party is less corrupt.
"Tinkering at the edges of this broken system won't fix the rot in our politics or restore public confidence in politicians.
"MPs from both sides of politics have shown they are willing to subvert the anti-corruption laws we have already and simply adding more new rules won't change that.
"Funding to the ICAC has been falling since 2015 meanwhile referral numbers are climbing and their investigations are becoming more complex.
"We need a strong, well-funded ICAC to thoroughly investigate the political corruption that has been exposed within both the Liberal and Labor parties.
"The Greens are calling for a total ban on all corporate political donations to eliminate the corrupting influence of corporations and big business on politics.
"NSW needs a ban on pay-per-view fundraising events like the one currently being investigated by the ICAC, and this was one of the key recommendations we made into ICAC's current lobbying probe.
"Pay-per-view fundraising events are designed to sell access to decision-makers and they invite corruption," he says.
Jamie Parker with meet with the Independent Commission Against Corruption on Friday 20 September to discuss his proposals for lobbying regulation reform.
18 Sept 2019
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Greens condemn government protection racket
Jamie Parker MP, the NSW Greens Spokesperson for anti-corruption, has condemned the government's refusal to debate an ICAC referral motion in the Lower House today.
The motion<https://www.parliament.
The motion would refer the testimony of the Member for Drummoyne to the ICAC and asks the ICAC to examine whether the pecuniary interest disclosure regime, the Code of Conduct for Members and the NSW Ministerial Code of Conduct are sufficient to ensure MPs private interests and public duty do not conflict.
Jamie Parker MP, NSW Greens spokesperson on anti-corruption says:
"The government is running a protection racket.
"By refusing to deal with this motion today, the government is stopping the ICAC from doing the job of ensuring MPs are properly held to account in NSW.
"This breaks with hundreds of years of tradition in Parliament. It's astounding that the government would flatly refuse to consider a motion that has been sent to them by their government colleagues in the Upper House.
"The rules around disclosures and conflicts of interest are woefully inadequate and need to be urgently reviewed by the ICAC," he says.
David Shoebridge MP says:
"The government is clearly in disarray on this, they supported the ICAC referral in the morning and then turned around and opposed it in the afternoon.
"This is a far broader inquiry than just whether or not one Minister broke the rules, this is about whether or not the rules themselves are broken.
"The public are right to be sick and tired of MPs voting to protect each other rather than protect the people they are elected and paid to serve," Mr Shoebridge said.
18 September 2019
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