Civil Asset Recovery Bill Passed By Senate

The Civil Asset Recovery And Unexplained Wealth Bill went to the Senate for approval today. It's an ambitious bill that makes it so that civil action can be pursued against public officials who demonstrate conspicuous and unexplainable wealth. It's also very technical - and here is some of the debate on it:

At the end of the day - the bill passed with the support of the PUP side and the Independent Senators with the UDP all voting against it citing defects with significant clauses in the legislation.