Anti-corruption body could examine Scott Morrison over Coalition’s ‘sports rorts’, Labor suggests

Attorney general Mark Dreyfus insists new commission is not an exercise in political payback' and says it could tap phones of federal politicians

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The new federal anti-corruption body could investigate Scott Morrison and the Coalition's sports rorts scandal, the attorney general has said, while conceding some legal experts are opposed to holding public hearings only in exceptional circumstances".

Mark Dreyfus said on Sunday the proposed National Anti-Corruption Commission (Nacc) would be able to tap politicians' phones, including encrypted apps, as long as it had a warrant. Unions would not be exempt from the commission's ability to interrogate third parties, he added.

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