Leppington triangle: Coalition’s $30m purchase of airport land ‘incompetent or corrupt’

Unjustifiable' purchase demonstrates need for federal anti-corruption body, inquiry hears

The federal government's controversial $30m purchase of the Leppington triangle site was either the result of gross incompetence or corruption", a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

Geoffrey Watson SC, the director of the Centre of Public Integrity, told a Senate inquiry the purchase of a 12.26-hectare triangular parcel of land near the site of Sydney's second airport for 10 times its market value was unjustifiable".