Media Releases

Following a pause over the holiday period, the campaign is re-commencing and will run until April 2017. It includes outdoor advertising on bus, train and tram shelters, advertising tomorrow in metropolitan and regional newspapers, radio and some catch-up TV, and digital media.

The next phase also involves a focus on Victorians from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds with translated advertisements to feature this week in major community language newspapers.

Launched in December 2016, the When something’s not right. Report it. campaign works to help build community understanding of corruption in state and local government and encourage Victorians to speak up and report it.

“The Victorian community invests considerable trust in public sector employees and rightly expects they will use limited taxpayer dollars in a proper manner for the benefit of all Victorians,” IBAC Chief Executive Officer Alistair Maclean said.

“When public sector corruption occurs, as has been highlighted in many recent IBAC investigations, it affects all Victorians by depriving the state of funds to operate and maintain vital services such as schools, hospitals and roads.

“By exposing serious and systemic corruption, IBAC has been able to highlight the detrimental effect of public sector corruption, and actions that need to be taken by public sector bodies to prevent it.”

IBAC’s investigations such as Operation Ord, which looked into the ‘banker schools’ system and Operation Dunham into the Department of Education’s failed Ultranet, along with Operation Fitzroy which investigated allegations of serious corruption in the former Department of Transport and Public Transport Victoria, are just some examples of a misuse of taxpayer’s money exposed by IBAC investigations.

Initial indicators from the community campaign have been positive, with a strong increase in visits recorded to IBAC’s website and online complaint form.

Media contact: media@ibac.vic.gov.au or 0427 480 840