Accountability Round Table Executive Membership
The Accountability Round Table is a non-partisan group of citizens with diverse backgrounds (academics, lawyers, politicians, journalists, authors) who are concerned with the current erosion of honesty and integrity in our democracy. The Accountability Round Table is...
Accountability Round Table Submissions to Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan
The Open Government Partnership Australia has sought submissions on Australia's second Open Government National Action Plan 2018-20. The next National Action Plan is is due by the end of August, 2018. Consultation with the public is being sought. There are five topics...
Gillian Triggs – Jim Carlton Memorial Lecture – The Decline of Democracy in a Post Truth Era
Gillian Triggs - The Decline of Parliamentary Democracy in a Post Truth Era: a Charter of Rights for Australia. We are now said to live in a 'post-truth' era, where opinion is likely to drive political outcomes more than evidence, that expertise is a subject for...
OAIC Continued… Letter from Christian Porter, Attorney-General
The Hon Christian Porter MP Attorney-General MCI 8-000944 Parliament House, Canberra ACT 2600 Telephone (02) 6277 7300 Fax (02) 6273 4102 28 FEB 2018 The Hon Tim Smith AO QC Chair Accountability Round Table Dear Tim, Thank you for your email of 28 January 2018...
ART letter to new Attorney General re lack of resources, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
Accountability Round Table continues to pursue better resourcing of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Following the appointment of Australia's new Attorney General, The Hon Christian Porter, Accountability Round Table sent the following letter and...
From public service to private interests. A revolving door!
Ken Coghill, Accountability Round Table member, warns of risks to government integrity from the sharing of confidential government information of commercial interest by those who move from the government to the private sector. This article is reposted from The Age and...
Congratulations The Honourable Thomas Harrison Smith (Tim Smith) QC – now AM
Congratulations from all of Accountability Round Table and its friends to our Chair of the Accountability Round Table, Tim Smith, who is now the recipient of an Australia Day Honours Award 2018 – Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Tim is...
Stephen Charles argues IBAC is ‘Weak and defective’
Stephen Charles, Accountability Round Table member, warns against Australia adopting the Victorian IBAC Anticorruption model for a National Anticorruption body. This article is reposted from The Age and is available at its original source here. 'Weak and defective':...
Submission to Attorney General: OAIC matters raised by ART – The evidence!
This submission was sent to the office of the Attorney general immediately after the letter sent by Tim Smith to George Brandis on OAIC and the OGP; Issues on Wednesday 6th December 2017 . That itself followed from a letter from George Brandis to Josh Frydenberg that...
Tim Smith to George Brandis on OAIC
OAIC and the OGP; Issues The Hon George Brandis MP Attorney-General Parliament House Canberra ACT 2600 6 December 2017 Dear Attorney-General On 19 October 2017 I received a copy of your 11 October letter to my local Member, the Member for Kooyong, (Mnet GenerL3 July...
Government talks big on transparency but….
Our ART members, Tim Smith, David Harper and Stephen Charles authored the following article, published in The Sydney Morning Herald and the Canberra Times. Turnbull government talks big on transparency, but keeps 'forgetting' to fund FOI Tim Smith, David Harper,...