by Chris Merritt | Nov 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
At last, I have a reason to say something nice about ICAC: its latest annual report shows a remarkable improvement in internal efficiency. Under the leadership of Chief Commissioner John Hatzistergos the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption completed 91 per...
by Chris Merritt | Oct 31, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
When Anthony Albanese’s government established the National Anti-Corruption Commission it copied some but not all aspects of ICAC in NSW. For the rest of his life, the prime minister should give thanks every day for one of those omissions. Ultimately it might not save...
by Chris Merritt | Aug 1, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article
Every now and then, a dissenting judgement in an important court case is so persuasive it makes injustice impossible to ignore. Mark Weinberg’s dissent over the flawed criminal conviction of the late Cardinal George Pell on child sex abuse charges is the prime...
by Chris Merritt | Jun 6, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Human Rights, ICAC, Media Article
On September 25, 1991, when Gareth Evans was foreign minister, Bob Hawke’s Labor government made a series of promises on protecting human rights that the Albanese government seems determined to ignore. This says much more about the current government’s approach to...
by Chris Merritt | May 16, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, Freedom of Speech, ICAC, Media Article, Rule of Law Issue
The decision to subject Walter Sofronoff, KC, to a corruption inquiry raises issues of principle that do not reflect favourably on the government of the ACT. The core of the problem relates to the erosion of one of the great principles of the rule of law – equal...
by Chris Merritt | Apr 19, 2024 | Chris Merritt, Commentary, ICAC, Media Article, Model Litigant
In November last year, Paul Brereton explained how his National Anti-Corruption Commission decides which matters to pursue. Given what has come to light about the Albanese government’s $2.4m settlement with Brittany Higgins, those remarks by the NACC commissioner...
