More than 870 Australian federal public servants acted corruptly over six years, investigation finds

The public service commission has created a new team to investigate serious misconduct allegations

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More than 870 federal public servants were found to have acted corruptly over a six-year period, according to internal investigations, with another 162 acting dishonestly or without integrity in the last 12 months.

The code of conduct breaches have been confirmed by the Australian public service commission (Apsc), which has also revealed the creation of a new “central team” to investigate serious misconduct allegations in response to the robotdebt scandal.

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