Perceptions of corruption and integrity in local government
- Report length
- 4 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: WHAT WE FOUND, pages 1 to 3
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The Crime and Corruption Commission surveyed Queensland council employees to assess perceived corruption risks, reporting barriers and opportunities for prevention.
The online survey ran from mid-May to early June 2020 and analysed responses from more than 6500 employees across 68 councils.
The CCC reported that employees more often perceived corruption in the wider sector than in their own workplace, and identified misuse of authority and conflicts of interest as common concerns.
The CCC reported strong willingness to report corruption, alongside uncertainty about reporting channels and concerns about management inaction, careers and workplace relationships.
The CCC called for targeted reporting education, support from managers and accessible, practical internal guidance.
In the body's own words
- Finding
There is a high level of willingness among council employees to report corruption.
- Recommendation
Local governments should ensure their internal resources are accessible, up-to-date and provide clear and practical advice to their employees.
Findings and recommendations
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.
No findings or recommendations are reproduced in this record. This does not establish that the report contains none.
Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
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- Reports from 1991 to about 2011 are listed on the CCC site but many pages link no report document; those records carry the page summary only, with findings and recommendations not extracted.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not OCR'd; their findings and recommendations are not extracted.
- Findings and opinions are not extracted except where a report states it makes no finding about any person (section 48B of the Crime and Corruption Act 2001). Pre-2025 reports state outcomes in narrative form, which is not converted into findings.
- Recommendations are extracted only from a complete numbered run; reports that number recommendations differently, or set them inside narrative chapters only, are marked not_extracted.
- Government responses are recorded where the CCC report or public hearing page links one; the responses themselves (often Queensland Parliament tabled papers or ministerial statements) are linked, not fetched.
- The 1989 Fitzgerald Inquiry report, which the CCC hosts, is a commission of inquiry report and is not included here.