Jacinta Allan has carefully suggested her government will tackle corruption. It won’t

March 12, 2026 — 5:00am

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Given how fast things are moving, I won’t take up more of your time than necessary. By the time you finish this column, who knows what will have happened in Iran, on global markets, or in the shitosphere of Kyle and Jackie O.

But in the relatively quiet village of Victorian politics, there is something that deserves your attention. It is now painstakingly clear that the Allan government has no plans to give more power to the state’s anti-corruption agency.

Why is a government facing the biggest corruption problem since the WA Inc scandal determined not to give IBAC what it needs to detect and deter crooked behaviour?

The simplest answer is that the Victorian Labor Party sees union corruption and criminal infiltration of its Big Build program as a lesser evil than giving IBAC, an anti-corruption agency it doesn’t trust, the powers and funding to be more effective.

This is an indictment of both the Labor Party and to a lesser........

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