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The Canberra Times
The Canberra Times
Jasper Lindell

Controversial $43m rural land deals cleared by corruption watchdog

David Dawes, the former chief executive of the now-defunct Land Development Agency. Picture by Dion Georgopoulos

The Integrity Commission has cleared the public servants and property agents involved in the controversial rural land buy-up on Canberra's western fringe of corrupt conduct.

The now-defunct Land Development Agency bought nine rural property leases west of Canberra between 2014 and 2017, spending more than $43 million on the deals that covered 3378 hectares.

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