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Operation Lyrebird - Part 1: A report dealing with allegations of corrupt conduct involving the acquisition of a lease for land adjacent to Glebe Park in Canberra City.

Special Report (Part 1) · ACT Integrity Commission · Australian Capital Territory · Dated

Findings, opinions and statements
1
Report length
44 pages

Official source

Operation Lyrebird - Part 1: A report dealing with allegations of corrupt conduct involving the acquisition of a lease for land adjacent to Glebe Park in Canberra City.

PDF · 44 pages · 618 KB · integrity.act.gov.au

Summary

Generated summary: written by an AI model from the report text and checked against the cited pages.

  • The ACT Integrity Commission considered a parliamentary committee’s corruption complaint about a lease acquisition beside Glebe Park in Canberra City.

    Report, page 5 · Report, page 6

  • It examined the earlier audit and committee reports and the documentary and oral material gathered for them.

    Report, page 6

  • The Commission concluded that there was no reasonable basis to suspect corrupt conduct in the acquisition and that further investigation was unjustified.

    Report, page 43 · Report, page 44

Findings, opinions and statements 1

Allegations are not findings. A commission's finding or opinion of corrupt conduct or misconduct is not a finding that a person is guilty of a criminal offence, and the commissions say so in their reports.

  1. reasonable suspicion

    Other

    As to the possibility that corrupt conduct was committed, that evidence not only does not give rise to any reasonable suspicion that it did so but is inconsistent with any such conclusion.

    Report, page 44

Recommendations

No recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.

Published responses

No published response was found.

Notes on this record

  • Date is the date of the Commission's letter or statement giving the report to the Speaker of the ACT Legislative Assembly (report page 5).
  • No numbered recommendations of the Commission's own were found in the report text. Numbered recommendations quoted in the report from other bodies are not recorded.

Coverage

This publisher

  • Confidential reports given to a Legislative Assembly committee are not published; only the Commission's announcement of the Operation Kite confidential report is recorded.
  • The Commission does not publish numbered recommendations of its own in these reports; numbered recommendations quoted from the Auditor-General or the Public Accounts Committee are not recorded.
  • Ministerial responses to special reports are presented to the Legislative Assembly and are not on the Commission's site; they are not loaded.
  • The lobbying inquiry (open, with two discussion papers) has not reported; discussion papers are not reports.
  • Discontinued investigations are not published individually.

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