Shorten Calls for Federal Anti-Corruption Body After IBAC Claims Victorian MP

Labor MP Bill Shorten puts a question to the Government during Question Time in the House of Representatives at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, on Nov. 25, 2019. Tracey Nearmy/Getty Images

Former Australian Labor Party (ALP) leader Bill Shorten has renewed calls for a federal level anti-corruption watchdog after Victorian Labor minister, Luke Donnellan, resigned on Oct. 11, just hours after he was named in a public inquiry into “branch stacking” in the state.

Shorten said the evidence presented during the first day of hearings highlighted the need for a federal body.