A former head of IBAC has told Tom Elliott that Jacinta Allan would have known IBAC were powerless to investigate the CFMEU.

Robert Redlich says a report was published urging the government to amend IBAC’s powers.

“If she didn’t know, she should have, but certainly by the time IBAC responded to her letter, which was swiftly, she then knew,” he said.

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