The Federal Government secretly deleted from the “review” into ASIC three-quarters of the findings about the $115,000-plus regulator boss James Shipton illegally charged taxpayers for personal “tax advice”.

When the Coalition launched its extraordinary attacks on Australia Post CEO Christine Holgate last October - over an incident which occurred two years earlier - it knew it was on the cusp of being engulfed in a completely seperate major scandal of its own.

Karen Chester is the last person standing at the helm of the corporate corruption watchdog who is not personally involved in serious alleged corruption. She is refusing to stand by the Federal Government’s claims that no wrongdoing has occurred.

Neither the board of aged care giant Anglicare Sydney or the Federal Government has taken any action whatsoever against detailed revelations its CEO previously ran international tax affairs for an arm of global tax cheat Coca-Cola.

Aged care giant TriCare has received a mystery $25 million taxpayer-funded “bonus” , despite it being based in a tax haven, failing to produce transparent accounts, and being at the heart of a string of elder abuse scandals.

ASIC “independent reviewer” Vivienne Thom has resigned from the government’s “go-to” investigations outfit, after Treasurer Frydenberg doctored her report.