Liberal MP Jason Falinski says ICAC is so broken, that to attempt to reform it, you’d have to “take down its foundations and begin again”.

Mr Falinski told Sky News host Alan Jones the foundation of “any proper justice system” was the principle of defending the innocent over the guilty, and added, “I really query how any sensible human being could possibly argue, after the last week, that that’s what the Independent Commission Against Corruption is still doing”.

“The reason that ICAC keeps getting turned over in every court of law, was that it was never subjected to the standards of evidence that our justice system has had for thousands of years,” he said.

“And those standards of evidence are there to protect the powerless against the powerful.

“When we got rid of those standards of evidence, that’s what we’ve ended up with in ICAC in New South Wales.

“It hasn’t stopped, it hasn’t prevented corruption – arguably it’s done the opposite.”

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