{"id":440714,"date":"2026-05-29T03:03:58","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:03:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=440714"},"modified":"2026-05-29T03:04:01","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T17:04:01","slug":"nacc-boss-paul-brereton-under-fresh-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=440714","title":{"rendered":"NACC boss Paul Brereton under fresh investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A fresh investigation is now underway into Australia\u2019s anti-corruption chief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Outgoing NACC boss Paul Brereton is the subject of a second probe by the commission\u2019s inspector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inspector Gail Furness told Senate estimates she began the investigation in April.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She said the complaint was received earlier and was not linked to her first inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The investigation process is still ongoing, with submissions from Brereton yet to be completed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Journalist Tom McIlroy reported the matter as scrutiny intensifies ahead of Brereton\u2019s retirement in July.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The case adds further pressure on the outgoing watchdog chief during a sensitive transition period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Journalist Tom McIlroy reported the matter as scrutiny intensifies ahead of Brereton\u2019s retirement in July.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":440736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13745,18281],"class_list":["post-440714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-nacc","tag-paul-brereton"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=440714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440737,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440714\/revisions\/440737"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/440736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=440714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=440714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=440714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}