The head of Queensland’s corruption watchdog Alan MacSporran is facing calls to step aside while an independent inquiry into how ill-founded charges were laid against Logan councillors is held.
Seven Logan councillors who were charged with fraud in 2019 have all had their charges dropped due to a lack of evidence.
Local Government Association of Queensland Chief Executive Greg Hallam said affected councillors should be compensated and receive a public apology.
“The LGAQ has always maintained the CCC overstepped the mark by wading into an industrial relations dispute – an area over which it does not have jurisdiction – and charging each of these councillors with a serious criminal offence,” Mr Hallam said.
“The Queensland Industrial Relations Commission and the Industrial Court are the forums for which these matters are independently adjudicated, not the CCC. The unprecedented actions of the CCC in this case set about a chain of events that irreparably damaged the lives and reputations of those involved and disenfranchised the Logan community as a consequence.”