When he stepped down, Kellam was critical of the Tasmanian Government for failing to create the offence of misconduct in public office.
[2] In 2015 the Joint Standing Committee on Integrity of the Tasmanian Parliament completed a review of the Commission.
[6] In 2018 leader of the Tasmanian Greens, Cassy O'Connor, was critical of the practice of referring complaints back to the relevant department, saying:[13] The fact that our integrity body, the Integrity Commission, is having to refer complaints back to the department that the complaint is made about will send a shudder down the spine of public servants who want to blow the whistle about potential bad practices or misconduct within their department.In 2019 Geoffrey Watson SC, former council assisting the Independent Commission Against Corruption (ICAC) in New South Wales, argued that it was "disturbing" that the Integrity Commission has never conducted public hearings and criticised the failure to make commission reports public.
[2] Watson was also critical of the requirement for complaints to be made in writing, in contrast to other Australian jurisdictions.
[12] Kristie Johnston, independent member for the seat of the Division of Clark, said that there is "snowball's chance in hell that this government will move to reform and strengthen the Integrity Commission in Tasmania"[12] and Cassy O'Connor said "It has been in the Gutwein Government's interest to keep the Integrity Commission enfeebled, to make sure that it doesn't bare its teeth"[12]