The Morrison Government must immediately release the report of the special investigation into the misuse of expenses and remuneration by ASIC executives.
 
The public deserves answers. Consumers, business and the staff at ASIC deserve certainty.
 
The investigation was commissioned in October and handed to the Government in December.
 
Yet Josh Frydenberg continues to keep it under lock and key away from public view.
 
By now Australians are used to this scrutiny-dodging Government burying independent reports into sports rorts, dodgy airport land deals, its illegal robodebt scheme and Minister Angus Taylor’s many nefarious activities.
 
The Government’s decision to bury a report it commissioned itself is a new low.
 
Australians can only assume that’s because his hand picked special investigator, former Inspector-General of Intelligence Vivienne Thom, found what the Auditor-General found: That the Government knew of and supported the unauthorised the payment of the six-figure expenses claims of Mr Shipton and former ASIC board member Daniel Crennan.
 
Josh Frydenberg and Scott Morrison have for months dodged questions about what they knew about the unauthorised payments and the Auditor-General’s investigation into them.
 
With the secret Thom Report now complete, the clock has now run out on excuses.
 
For once, Mr Frydenberg and Mr Morrison need to put the public good ahead of their own political interests and immediately release the secret report they commissioned.