Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull is giving serious thought to setting up a federal corruption watchdog.
Mr Turnbull acknowledged the public has "zero tolerance" for misconduct and corruption among politicians and the public sector and favours a body modelled on Victoria's independent broad-based anti-corruption commission rather than NSW's Independent Commission Against Corruption.
"So you have to make sure that you re-assess these agencies, reassess the work they are doing, ask the question if they are adequate to the task - there has been a Senate Select Committee recently [looking] at a National Integrity Commission," he told Fairfax Media.
"I am considering that report very carefully and if the government's conclusion is that there are gaps in our armoury, then we will look at the best way to fill them. But you have just got to make sure that you get it right, as the experience has been mixed."
