The ink is dry on Tony Fitzgerald's report into how corruption is investigated in Queensland, but it remains unclear how the state government will deal with a long list of "additional issues" that weren't within the inquiry's terms of reference.
Mr Fitzgerald, who led the historic Fitzgerald Inquiry into police corruption 30 years ago, co-chaired the inquiry with retired Supreme Court justice Alan Wilson.
Their findings on rebuilding public trust in the Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC) were released yesterday.
As the authors noted, the report was "not Fitzgerald 2.0", and was charged only with examining and reporting on "quite specific aspects" of the CCC's operations.
The 10 "additional issues" outlined in the report's appendix include how the CCC should be funded, the need for a clearing house for corruption complaints, and the need for certain legislative reforms.
The report was commissioned by the Queensland government after a string of high-profile failed prosecutions, and the finding by the Parliamentary Crime and Corruption Committee (PCCC) that the CCC had erred in its decision to charge eight Logan City councillors with fraud in 2019.
One of the key recommendations is that fewer police be seconded to the CCC, in favour of training up "civilian investigators" from a range of other professional backgrounds.
Griffith University public policy and law Professor AJ Brown said this was to allow the CCC to pivot away from predominantly criminal prosecutions.
He said...
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