The ACT Integrity Commission still has no plans to hold public hearings as part of its current investigations, but will begin publishing anti-corruption reports in the coming weeks.
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The integrity commissioner, Michael Adams QC, said he was presently working on four reports, two of which were "quite substantial".
Mr Adams also said government procurement as a systemic issue could be considered by the commission.
"I am prepared to disclose that procurement is on our table as an important question," Mr Adams said
The commission, which was established in 2019, has not yet published an anti-corruption report or held any public hearings.
Mr Adams told an ACT budget estimates hearing there had been more than a dozen private hearings.
The commission had also considered more than 100 complaints, the majority of which had been dismissed.
Mr Adams said the commission was working on 12 preliminary investigations and 10 investigations.
One investigation might require public hearings, and there had been no complaints made about current or former ACT cabinet ministers, he said.
The commission will receive $1.1 million over the next two years for capital works, which Mr Adams said would cover the cost of technology to be able to intercept telephonic communications.
Mr Adams said that ability was important for the commission to investigate matters fully.
"In fact a couple of the investigations that we're now in the course of will be regrettably incomplete because of our inability to investigate that way," he said.
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The commission will also increase its staff, including employing extra people for its legal team, which Mr Adams said was presently "completely inadequate".
"It's simply that we don't have the resources, and everybody has to muck in because the work's got to be done," he said.
Mr Adams said the complaints assessment process would also become more efficient as the commission's staff dealt with more matters.
"If you've got, for example, a complaint about procurement, there's say three relevant pieces of ACT legislation that you have to know of to be able to know what the complaint is about," he said on Monday.
"Once they've done one procurement matter, they have the resource to deal more quickly with the next."
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Jasper Lindell
Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.
Jasper Lindell joined The Canberra Times in 2018. He is a Legislative Assembly reporter, covering ACT politics and government. He also writes about development, transport, heritage, local history, literature and the arts, as well as contributing to the Times' Panorama magazine. He was previously a Sunday Canberra Times reporter.
