The report that ICAC buried When ICAC was set up in 1988, Parliament instructed it to use truth-polluting and adversarial procedures as little as possible. This could only have encouraged the de facto government of NSW, John Macarthur's Rum Corps. The culture persisted.
Corruption defeats democracy.
We expected the commissioner to actively manage hearings and not allow them to be dominated by counsel assisting or by the barristers representing various witnesses. ICAC hired an expert, Bron McKillop, of Sydney University's law school. He delivered five background chapters later in 1991. ICAC reported on its inquiry into Neddy Smith's information in January 1994. Three months later, Parliament, apparently unsatisfied, asked Justice Jim Wood to hold a separate inquiry into systemic police corruption.