Distraction: Christian Porter’s night life eclipses deep concerns over political integrity

The role of federal attorney general is a uniquely powerful position, one that is supposed to sit, unblemished, above party political wrangling and above the reach of vested interests. Yet the Coalition’s Christian Porter in his role as federal Attorney General has demonstrated a disturbing acquiescence to powerful corporate interests, with the public interest coming a distant second. So it should come as no surprise that Porter has proposed such a feather duster of a national anti-corruption commission.

There was his “brazen attack on Parliament and the public interest” by censoring key parts of the auditor general’s report into defence’s procurement of the Hawkei vehicle, following a request to do so from multinational…