AusPol / 20 April 2023
Andrews pinged over ‘grey corruption ‘
Eyebrows were raised high in Victoria yesterday when the state’s anti-corruption body IBAC published a report outlining some questionable behaviour between Premier Daniel Andrews’ office and a union. Just before the 2018 election, Andrews announced that the Health Workers Union (HWU) had won a contract to provide training to help frontline health workers deal with violence. IBAC found that the contract was awarded without a competitive tender process – and adding insult to injury, the training was bad. IBAC said there was misconduct but didn’t allege ‘corrupt conduct’. However, it said the case was “another example of the phenomenon of grey corruption”. For the pure of heart, ‘grey corruption’ is when a decisionmaker bends the rules to benefit their mates. Coalition leader John Pesutto said whatever colour it is, it’s still corruption. And Andrews said the report was “sweeping” and “educational” but had not pointed the finger at anyone in his government.
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