Cell 1aiii · GWG Proposal
Discipline Judges Independently; Try the Chief Justice Openly
GREEN WHITE GO MANIFESTO — 2026.10.01 · CANONICAL THREE-SENTENCE UNIT
Green White Go proposes an independent judicial disciplinary institution that investigates misconduct, protects honest judges from political harassment and publishes outcomes subject to lawful privacy and fair-hearing rules.
The Chief Justice answers through a special senior accountability route involving the Senate (the federal institution reserved here for the special constitutional functions assigned to it), the Federal Attorney-General (the national prosecution officeholder) and the President of the Bar, while detailed hearing procedures, thresholds, sanctions and appeals belong in legislation and the relevant Justice Policy Paper.
Judges must be answerable for misconduct, but the system that disciplines them must itself remain independent of executive control.
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Judges must be answerable for misconduct, but the system that disciplines them must itself remain independent of executive control.
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Reuse only with existing qualifications.
The proposal remains distinct from current law and from evidence for individual components.
Evidence notes for this pillarRelated Hard Questions
Because Green White Go prefers one clearly accountable owner for serious federal enforcement rather than several institutions able to pass responsibility among themselves. Under the destination architecture, serious federal anti-corruption enforcement sits inside the Federal Police. Concentrating enforcement creates risks and requires stronger checks.
The safeguards include:
- specialised functions separated internally;
- blind or protected case allocation where appropriate;
- scrutiny of officers' own finances;
- judicial safeguards around intrusive financial-intelligence powers;
- public spending information visible independently of police;
- the Federal Attorney-General selected through the civilian legal-accountability chain;
- legislative scrutiny of Federal Police leadership;
- independent courts;
- open audit and public-information systems.
Police visibility into public spending never means police approval of public expenditure. And Green White Go does not claim that placing anti-corruption in the Federal Police somehow makes corruption impossible.
The proposition is narrower:
make responsibility clear, then surround concentrated power with visible checks.
The proposed special senior process involves the Senate, Attorney-General and President of the Bar. Wider judicial discipline must protect fair hearing and honest judges from political harassment while addressing misconduct. Naming the institutions does not settle every investigative, adjudicative or sanctioning step.
IMPLEMENTATION DETAIL
Those steps, alongside Senate constitution, quorum and decision rules, belong to the Senate & Constitutional Offices Policy Specification.