Prime Minister Scott Morrison has signalled the Coalition’s lambasted proposal for a federal integrity commission is dead and buried, despite backbencher Bridget Archer insisting one is needed.
“We put forward our proposal in detailed legislation and it has not been supported by the Labor Party. I need bipartisan support to put that in place. I am not going to introduce a kangaroo court,” he told reporters in Launceston.“My view has always been – all the way through, on every occasion I have spoken about it – that all sides of politics will need to come together to get this done in a bipartisan way, as the Prime Minister has said.
He insisted implementing a similar model federally was not in the nation’s best interest because it would be “corrupted” by Labor.