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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Andrew Messenger

One third of Queensland public servants have witnessed corruption and over half didn’t report it, watchdog finds

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The primary reasons Queensland public servants who said they would not report corruption gave were: fear of retribution, reprisals and concerns about confidentiality, safety, and privacy. Photograph: PhotoAlto/Alamy

A third of Queensland public servants say they have witnessed corruption in their workplace in the last five years, according to a survey by the state’s anti-corruption watchdog.

However, the state’s Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) investigated fewer than 1% of complaints referred to it, and has only charged a single person with a corruption offence in a year, it revealed in parliament this week.

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