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Pulling the wings off butterflies

Henry VIII and making corruption illegal

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

15 October 2022

9:00 AM

Acting against corruption should obviously be just and efficient. This basic consideration should not be abandoned in parliament’s unseemly rush to ram through the National Anti-Corruption Commission bills before their long summer break.

While the NACC will never be a court, its powers will limit matters surely implied in the Constitution just as freedom of political communication is.

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