Premier’s private staff ‘totally unaccountable’, former ombudsman warns
“In Victoria, when you start digging a big, expensive hole, you just keep on digging.” Glass’ comments were made at a national anti-corruption conference where Victoria’s integrity challenges emerged as a recurring theme. Glass told this masthead that while it was not her place to say whether the state needed a change of government after 11 years of Labor rule, she noted that “governments can get very comfortable” when they are in office for a long time. Transparency International Australia chair Professor A.J. Brown presented new data showing to the conference public confidence in the Victorian government and its peak anti-graft body, the Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission, to fight corruption is lower than in any other state.