Senate to amend PM’s proposal for single ethics officer: Senator

Rejecting the FAA's proposal for a single ethics officer for the upper and lower Houses would require a major amendment to the accountability bill.

The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs committee studying the Federal Accountability Act is likely to make an amendment to scrap the bill's proposal for a single conflict of interest and ethics commissioner for both houses of Parliament, maintaining a separate officer for the Senate, says a ...

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