SMH · Rob Harris · Friday 29 May 2026
Two years in, the National Anti-Corruption Commission is engulfed in a controversy of its own making — accused of the very secrecy it was built to expose.
Twenty years of campaigning for a corruption watchdog and the one we got conducts its business in the dark like the thing it was built to hunt. Juvenal asked who watches the watchmen two thousand years ago, and Canberra's answer is: nobody, and don't you dare ask. The body built to drag secrecy into the daylight has decided daylight's for everyone but itself.