Premier Dan Andrews has spoken out as he faces questions in an anti-corruption probe over his authorities’s grant to a Labor-aligned union in 2018.
The Herald Solar reported this week the Impartial Broad-based Anti-corruption Fee (IBAC) was investigating a $1.2 million grant made to the Well being Employees Union in October 2018.
It’s the fourth probe the Victorian Premier has been linked to throughout his time in workplace.
Mr Andrews dismissed the studies, releasing a press release on Saturday claiming he acts “appropriately always and in all issues”.
“No matter any smear, innuendo, or media reporting based mostly on nameless sources, the one IBAC issues I’ll touch upon are these which can be the topic of a closing report – as is acceptable and has at all times been my place,” Andrews mentioned.
“I act appropriately always and in all issues.
“That’s the oath I swore and I take it very critically.”
The newest investigation is wanting into funding awarded to the HWU forward of the 2018 election.
It fashioned a part of a multimillion-dollar bundle for the coaching of hospital employees towards occupational violence which was introduced every week earlier than the federal government went into caretaker mode.
Victorian Opposition Chief Matthew Man labelled the Andrews Authorities as “mired in scandal corruption”.
“This isn’t the primary, it isn’t the second, it isn’t the third, it’s in reality the fourth time this authorities is being investigated by the anti-corruption fee,” the Opposition Chief mentioned on Saturday, including it was “unprecedented.”
Different IBAC investigations throughout Andrews reign have involved Victorian Labor’s employment of marketing campaign organisers as informal voters officers in 2014, a misuse of parliament’s price range referred to as Crimson Shirts and which required Labor to repay $387,000, in addition to a separate investigation into widespread department stacking in Victorian Labor.
Victorians head to the polls on November 26.
Initially printed as Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews responds to IBAC corruption probe
