Laws for a Nationwide Anti-Corruption Fee has handed the Senate, paving the best way for it to be established.
The promise of a nationwide fee to deal with corruption was a core promise by Labor on the election this yr.
Labor Senator Murray Watt praised those that had pushed "for this vital reform".
"Once you change the federal government, you modify the nation," he stated.
Unbiased Senator David Pocock praised a "historic second for Australian politics".
Greens chief Adam Bandt stated the laws had handed with two Greens amendments and got here "after greater than decade of pushing for an anti-corruption watchdog".
"Now, the large work to scrub up the corruption of the final authorities begins."
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