Icac commissioner calls critics ‘buffoons’ after Scott Morrison labels it a kangaroo court
by Australian Associated Press from on (#5YRWR)
Stephen Rushton's comments come after the prime minister criticised the NSW Icac model
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Critics who labelled the New South Wales anti-corruption watchdog as a kangaroo court" - a phrase used by the prime minister in his criticisms of the agency - were buffoons" who were launching unfounded attacks, a parliamentary committee has heard.
Independent Commission Against Corruption (Icac) commissioner Stephen Rushton told a parliamentary review that references to the body as a kangaroo court" weren't just misleading but were also untrue.
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