No love for ICAC in château Birmingham

Well, not only did then-opposition leader Malinauskas support the model of the SA ICAC – itself is the result of a 2021 legislative gutting presaged on misinformation, followed by a largely debateless and succinct 24-hour parliamentary blitz – but so too did former premier Steven Marshall.

Outgoing Attorney-General Michaelia Cash liked the model enough to put the SA changes to federal cabinet in November. (Oddly enough, last week she told our legal editor Michael Pelly “not one person” on the election trail had raised a federal integrity commission, a key platform in the blue ribbon seats lost to the teals.)

Perhaps Birmo’s attraction to Australia’s weakest ICAC was formed there. We certainly would expect such wearisome topics to be beyond the realms of dinner time conversation with his wife, Courtney Morcombe, the chief of staff to former premier Marshall.