{"id":443750,"date":"2026-06-02T05:26:39","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:26:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443750"},"modified":"2026-06-02T05:26:41","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T19:26:41","slug":"jacqui-felgate-reacts-to-jacinta-allans-ibac-backflip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=443750","title":{"rendered":"Jacqui Felgate reacts to Jacinta Allan\u2019s IBAC backflip"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Victoria\u2019s anti-corruption agency IBAC will now be given follow-the-money powers to investigate the misuse of public funds on the state\u2019s Big Build construction sites.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Age reporter, Chip Le Grand, broke the news this afternoon and stated there\u2019s two aspects of the situation that he\u2019s clear on at the moment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt has become politically poisonous for the Premier, and so she\u2019s changed her mind from the position she held just last week,\u201d the 3AW Drive host said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Press PLAY to hear Premier Jacinta Allan address the media today<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-omny-studio wp-block-embed-omny-studio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" title=\"Jacinta Allan addresses media after IBAC backflip\" src=\"https:\/\/omny.fm\/shows\/3aw-drive\/jacinta-allan-addresses-media-after-ibac-backflip\/embed#?secret=CNNA3GfLpS\" data-secret=\"CNNA3GfLpS\" width=\"100%\" height=\"180\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe Premier saying that she is no longer satisfied that IBAC has powers to investigate union corruption and that\u2019s why she\u2019s acted, it never did,\u201d Felgate said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Director of The Centre for Public Integrity and recently involved in investigating crime and corruption in the CFMEU, Geoffrey Watson SC, then reacted to the news today and was questioned by Jacqui Felgate about corruption in this state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victoria\u2019s anti-corruption agency IBAC will now be given follow-the-money powers to investigate the misuse of public funds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":302365,"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":[1168,47,8160],"tags":[993,8],"class_list":["post-443750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-tunnel","category-rail-news","category-suburban-rail-loop","tag-melbourne","tag-victoria"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443750","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\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443750"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":443751,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443750\/revisions\/443751"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/302365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}