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...
Our Submission. Resourcing of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Australian OGP Commitment 3.1
Accountability Round Table has long held concerns about the protection of Freedom of Information given the abolition of the oversight body, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), followed by its restoration in a weakened and underfunded form....
A Federal Anti-Corruption Agency for Australia? Griffith Uni and TI Discussion paper.
Griffith University and Transparency International have released a new discussion paper as an outcome of the National Integrity Conference held in Brisbane over 16 - 17 March 2017; A Federal Anti-Corruption Agency for Australia? DISCUSSION PAPER #1 Strengthening...
Open Government Partnership – Our Letter to Malcolm Turnbull
It's good news that the Federal Government and civil society completed and lodged, with the (International) Open Government Partnership, Australia’s first National Action Plan (NAP) on 8th of December last year to improve and strengthen transparency and openness in...
Accountability News March 2017
There are several recent developments in transparency and accountability worth noting. Make it your business to follow up what transpires from each. Select Committee on a National Integrity Commission On 8 February 2017, the Parliament of Australia established a...
NSW ICAC. The rolling back of independent oversight
The NSW ICAC has been under sustained political pressure from those who stand to gain by weak investigatory bodies, to wind back its powers to investigate corruption in public service since its inquiry into Margaret Cuneen, and investigations into the Liberal Party....
Open Government Partnership (International) – Fourth OGP Global Summit 2016
WHAT'S NEXT FOR OGP COMMITMENTS? The fourth OGP Global Summit will take place in Paris, December 7th - 9th. The OGP summit will involve 3000 representatives from 70 countries: Heads of State and governments, ministers, public servants, members of parliament, local...
Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 4. Freedom of Information.
FREEDOM OF INFORMATION Open Government Australia in its Draft National Action Plan includes Commitment 3.1 – Information management and access laws for the 21st century. At present the draft commitment reads; "We will ensure our information access laws are modern and...
Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 3. A National Integrity Framework.
AN AMBITIOUS NATIONAL INTEGRITY FRAMEWORK Open Government Partnership Australia is developing a National Action Plan. The current Draft Plan (as a subset of the commitment in theme 4, to Integrity in the public sector) now includes a commitment to a National...
Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 2. Political Donations
OGP - NATIONAL ACTION PLAN - POLITICAL DONATIONS This second submission from Accountability Round Table suggesting changes to the Open Government Partnership Draft National Action Plan addresses Commitment 4.1, the commitment to examine the ‘framework of donations to...
Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 1. Recognising the role of the OAIC
OGP - NATIONAL ACTION PLAN - RECOGNISING THE ROLE OF THE OAIC This first submission from Accountability Round Table suggesting changes to the Open Government Partnership Draft National Action Plan addresses the role, overlooked in the National Action Plan, of the...