The National Anti-Corruption Commission has given its tick of approval for multibillion-dollar federal corruption – the sort of corruption that NSW’s ICAC has had the backbone to confront, but the NACC does not.

If you thought the NACC deciding not to investigate Robodebt was, um, “disappointing”, the NACC walking away from the Coalition’s blatant corruption of massive grant schemes is another whole level of failure.

Given a referral with conclusive evidence of corrupt conduct by the Morrison government, the NACC has “decided to take no further action”.

According to the NACC, the most flagrant pork barrelling, skewing billions of taxpayers’ dollars into favoured seats for the obvious reason, is just fine and dandy.

Nothing corrupt about that – let it rip.

So whatever party is in federal power can use public money for its political ends without worrying about the NACC.

That puts the NACC at odds with overwhelming public opinion and the higher standards being pursued by the ICAC.

The NSW body’s investigation of “pork barrelling” – Operation Jersey – found: “Defined as ‘the allocation of public funds and resources to targeted electors for partisan political purposes’, the ICAC concluded that pork barrelling can, under certain circumstances, involve serious breaches of public trust and conduct that amount to corrupt conduct.”

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