Looking Back 2020
- Report length
- 40 pages
Summary
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South Australia’s outgoing Independent Commissioner Against Corruption reviewed seven years of the office’s work and proposed legislative reforms.
The Commissioner described investigation, complaint oversight, agency evaluation and education as parts of the office’s broader integrity role.
The Commissioner concluded that corruption was present but not systemic, while widespread maladministration created opportunities for corrupt conduct.
The Commissioner recommended a public integrity commission and changes to statutory definitions and investigation powers.
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In the body's own words
- Conclusion
Corruption exists in South Australia but South Australia does not have a corrupt public administration.
- Conclusion
There is however evidence of widespread maladministration which enables individuals to engage in corrupt conduct.
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
This publisher
- Office for Public Integrity: publishes only its annual reports (excluded); no OPI report or statement records.
- Since October 2021 the Commission does not make findings of corrupt conduct; most records have no findings.
- Government and agency responses are recorded only where the Commission's page links them or the report reproduces them; implementation status is not published by the Commission as structured data.
- Scanned reports without a text layer are not read (no OCR); their recommendations stay not_extracted.
- Recommendations are extracted only from numbered 'Recommendation N' lists; reports that set out recommendations in prose, tables or unnumbered lists keep recommendations_status not_extracted.
- Findings are extracted only from investigation reports that state them in the Commissioner's own words (Oakden 2018, Gillman 2015); public statements are not read for findings.