An examination of changes effected by recent amendments to the ICAC Act 2012
- Report length
- 18 pages
Summary
The report's own summary: Introduction, page 4
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South Australia’s Independent Commissioner Against Corruption assessed amendments to the ICAC Act and their effects on the public integrity system.
The Commissioner concluded that the changes increased the risk of corruption going undetected and weakened public administration’s ability to address it.
The Commissioner said the amendments narrowed the Commission’s jurisdiction, removed its power to initiate investigations and restricted public reporting.
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The Commissioner also concluded that more complex reporting requirements were likely to reduce information reported about corruption, misconduct and maladministration.
In the body's own words
- Conclusion
The changes made by the amending Act limit the Commission’s jurisdiction, curtail its independence and reduce its ability to effectively identify, deal with and prevent corruption in public administration.
- Opinion
The new and more complex reporting requirements are likely to mean that less information about corruption, misconduct and maladministration is reported.
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.
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Published responses
No published response was found.
Coverage
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- 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.
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- 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.