Former IBAC commissioner Robert Redlich and former Ombudsman Deborah Glass have welcomed the expansive terms for the Kourakis royal commission into Victoria’s corruption-plagued major projects sector.

Victorian government ministers met at 9am to approve the terms of reference and commissioner for the royal commission into the construction industry.

The Victorian construction sector will be subject to a royal commission following years of allegations that organised crime and corruption has infiltrated the government’s major…