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THE ICAC
25 The Independent Commission Against Corruption has continued its successful and many-sided operation.
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Since the "partial Amnesty" on 5 November last year the question in many minds has been whether things would slip back into the bad old ways, in spite of the apparent determination of the Government not to allow them to do
so. The Commissioner assures me that the re is no
evidence that anything of the sort has happened, nor has there been any retrogression as far as syndicated
corruption is concerned. We should remember that the
resources of the powerful Operations Department are now freed from delving into the past and able to concentrate on investigating and monitoring the present. The whole
position within both the public and private sectors is transformed from what it was four or five years ago. This
is an extraordinary achievement in which many have played a
part as well as the ICAC, and in which all of us can take
pride.
27 In most other communities there is an element of
corruption. Here, where recently there has been so much
public revelation of wide-scale corruption, we must accept
that there is much more to be done.
more
There will always
be some people ready to indulge in corruption, and we must
therefore be vigilant and equipped to prevent a