by Lyn Allison | Jan 27, 2023 | News
Australia Day 65,000 BCE, 1788 CE and 2023: a long perspective. 65,000 BCE Homo sapiens first arrived in Australia about 65,000 years before ‘the common era’, or BCE. We cannot pin down a specific day for their arrival. We don’t use the abbreviations AD or BC of the...
by jmsthornton | Apr 30, 2022 | Annual Integrity Lecture, News
JIM CARLTON INTEGRITY LECTURE 2022 Accountability Round Table (ART) – Melbourne Law School (MLS) The Hon Barry Jones presented the Annual ART and Melbourne University Law School Jim Carlton Lecture at Melbourne Law School on Friday 29 April 2022 ‘Liberty,...
by jmsthornton | Nov 9, 2015 | Federal Government, Governance, News, Public Trust
Barry Jones, a longstanding member of Accountability Round Table has written two papers on the state of democracy in Australia from two different perspectives. These provide a context for openness and accountability in Australian government and public institutions....
by jmsthornton | Oct 3, 2014 | News, Trust in Government
The Hon Barry Jones AC, FAA FAHA FTSE FASSA FACE ‘What’s wrong with our democracy?’ Talk given to ICAN – The Independent Community Accountability Network Hawthorn Community Precinct. 584 Glenferrie Road, Hawthorn. Thursday 2 October 2014, 1600 TRANSCRIPT Barry...
by jmsthornton | Mar 30, 2022 | News
The Hon Barry Jones presents the Annual ART and Melbourne University Law School Jim Carlton Lecture, ‘Liberty, Fraternity and – what was the other word?’ How Equality fell off the political agenda in Australia Date: Friday 29 April 2022 Time: 6:00pm Host: Melbourne...
