SORRY, Jamie Walker, but the claim that Tony Fitzgerald has “studiously distanced himself ” from politics in Queensland is risible. He never missed an opportunity to chide non-Labor governments and leaders – and one LNP-appointed Chief Justice. Fitzgerald has become the plaster St Patrick of Sunshine State political theology. His utility to the ALP is to perpetually associate the conservative side of the state’s only legislative aisle – the emerald one, as it happens – with all of the serpentine corruption he allegedly cast out. When a snake does slither back into the parliamentary precinct in George Street – though more than one is currently at large – Tony’s name is piously invoked not to exorcise an intruder but to conjure the ghost of Joh. That’s brazen considering the monies involved in the 1991 convictions of four National Party ministers following the Fitzgerald Inquiry would not remunerate Annastacia Palaszczuk’s 30-strong media-spin team for a week. That’s the thing about corruption in modern Labor governments: they legalised it.
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The problem with all these star chambers is the process is the punishment.
And merely bringing a political enemy before the chamber is enough to end a career.
At the local government level, for every Pisale in Las there is a string of LNP aligned councillors and mayors (and even every now and again ALP of clearly the wrong faction) who are publicly accused but never convicted of anything. And protest their innocence long after they age in poverty due to the lawyer fees.
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That’s why it is called “official corruption.” For official read legalised.
The cost of Fitzgerald’s inquiry into Joh outweighed said corruption many times over.
Lost in the fallout after the inquiry was the need to pass retrospective legislation to protect a majority of the state’s sitting MLAs.
These guys were guilty of stealing more money than Leisha Harvey (NP Greenslopes) who was left languishing in jail.
I’m sure St Anthony and his co-chair Alan Wilson, who proved his reliability recommending against Newman’s VLAD laws, will subject the Palaszczuk government to the greatest scrutiny. Something like $10,000 per day each for 120 days, assuming the inquiry isn’t extended, guarantees it.
See ICAC’s attack on the former Liverpool mayor Ned Mannoun. ICAC eventually conceded that there was nothing to see but instead of Mr Mannoun entering his third term and finally making local changes after a billion years of Labor hopelessness Labor got another run from 2016-2021. Local sentiment was clearly on his side though because he was re-elected pretty easily in 2021 council elections.