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In the lead-up to this month’s election, the ‘teal’ independents backed a model for a national integrity commission (NIC) that has been proposed by independent MP Helen Haines, which would “consider any allegations of misuse of public money”, including pork-barreling.
Haines’ proposed model is based on the NSW Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC).
A new report for the NSW ICAC has called for pork-barrelling to be prohibited and for grants instead to be made strictly on merit after assessments against clear criteria:
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About the author
Leith van Onselen is Chief Economist at the MB Fund and MB Super. He is also a co-founder of MacroBusiness.
Leith has previously worked at the Australian Treasury, Victorian Treasury and Goldman Sachs.