Labor’s new ministerial code of conduct bans blind trusts like Christian Porter used

Changes come after Labor criticised Porter for not declaring who contributed to fund he used to pay for ABC defamation case

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Blind trusts of the kind Christian Porter used to partially pay for his defamation case against the ABC have been explicitly banned by the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, in a new code of conduct for his ministers.

While in opposition, Labor had attempted to have Porter, the former attorney general, disciplined for failing to declare who had contributed to the fund he used to pay for the ultimately aborted defamation court action he instigated against the ABC.

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