by jmsthornton | Mar 24, 2018 | Annual Integrity Lecture
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...
by jmsthornton | Mar 22, 2018 | Auditor General, Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Open Government Partnership (OGP)
Accountability Round Table wrote to Christian Porter on his accession to the post of Attorney General to raise with him the continued inadequate resourcing of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. Our initial letter can be read here The Attorney...
by jmsthornton | Jan 31, 2018 | Federal Government, Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Open Government Partnership (OGP)
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...
by jmsthornton | Jan 29, 2018 | Code of Conduct, Corruption, Lobbying
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...
by jmsthornton | Jan 29, 2018 | News, Open Government, Public Trust, Reforms
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...