More Australian corruption

Oh look, another Australian state premier has been found to have acted corruptly:

Former premier Gladys Berejiklian engaged in serious corrupt conduct and breached the public’s trust through her secret relationship with now-disgraced ex-MP Daryl Maguire.

The Independent Commission Against Corruption’s (ICAC) bombshell findings end a wait of almost two years for a ruling on Berejiklian’s conduct while she was in a secret relationship with Maguire.

In the damning two-volume report, the ICAC found that Berejiklian engaged in “serious corrupt conduct by breaching public trust” through the awarding of grants that Maguire had personally lobbied for “without disclosing her close personal relationship” with the then Wagga Wagga MP.

But despite that, they recommend not charging her. That'll boost public confidence in politicians!

But Berejiklian isn't alone. Her predecessors Barry O'Farrell and Kristina Keneally were both found by ICAC to have behaved corruptly, meaning that half of NSW's premiers since 2009 have been corrupt. Something is terribly, terribly wrong in that state. And despite repeated ICAC investigations, the culture of corruption just seems to continue. Perhaps there's a problem with this whole "investigate, but never charge" regime...