Fresh calls for anti-corruption watchdog

The number of federal public servants witnessing corruption has doubled in three years, sparking renewed calls for a national watchdog.

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A newly-released survey of public servants has led to fresh calls for a national anti-corruption body.

An Australian Public Service Commission survey has found five percent of respondents saw misconduct in 2016-2017.

That's an increase on the 2.6 percent who said they'd seen misconduct in a similar survey three years earlier.

Greens leader Richard Di Natale says, unlike his party, neither the government nor the Labor party will support a federal anti-corruption body resembling the ones seen in many states around the country.

He says that's because they're afraid of what such a body might find.