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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Paul Karp

Labor urged to bolster federal Icac plan with more protection for whistleblowers

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus
Mark Dreyfus, the attorney general, has indicated reforms including a judicial commission to investigate judges’ conduct and a parliamentary standards bill will follow the integrity commission. Photograph: Mick Tsikas/AAP

The attorney general, Mark Dreyfus, has been urged to beef up Labor’s integrity commission proposal with calls to protect whistleblowers and lower the bar for investigations.

Details shared by Dreyfus in confidential roundtables on the design of the anti-corruption body on Wednesday have confirmed concerns some reforms proposed in the crossbench bill will be omitted, although its architect, independent MP Helen Haines, is mostly satisfied with progress.

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