Premier Denis Napthine has no choice now but to reframe and reboot the $170 million integrity watchdog that has fallen so short of what the Coalition promised in opposition.

A special report marking the first year of operation for the Baillieu and Napthine governments' Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission has confirmed what eminent legal critics warned of: the commission is toothless.

Illustration: Ron Tandberg.

The report is the first opportunity for Victorians to assess the work of the agency that former Coalition leader Ted Baillieu said we needed to clean up the ''culture of corruption'' in Victoria.

At merely 29 pages in length, and of little substance, the report reads like a satire; like it might have been scripted for the BBC's Yes Minister or The Thick of It series.