We are constantly updating this section with new stories exposing conduct contrary to good governance, conflicts of interest and too often rules being ignored and the individuals who flout them not being taken to task. Elected representatives leaving Parliament and going straight into roles as lobbyists, taking on lucrative consulting contracts or board positions, using their insights and contacts gained for public benefit to feather their own financial nests.

And then there is those that leave private employ entering public life to continue to further their own interests or those of their mates. The result is too often skewed policy making, contracts awarded for the wrong reasons, including public assets sold off to secretive consortia and without proper scrutiny.

The old adage of "it's not what you know, but who you know" seems to be the mantra as democracy suffers, money from the public purse - our money - is misdirected and redirected. Together with our Q.E.D. series - the case for a federal ICAC - we see our role as independent journalists to expose it for the public to see it for what it is - the corruption of our democracy.

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