by jmsthornton | Sep 15, 2018 | Auditor General, Federal Government, Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Open Government, Open Government Partnership (OGP)
ART’s Tim Smith has tirelessly pursued the parlous state of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, where funding has not been reinstated and one Commissioner has been doing the work of three. Tim’s letters containing the arguments for...
by jmsthornton | Sep 9, 2018 | Corruption, Governance, Ministerial Responsibility, Public Trust, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
Colleen Lewis, member of Accountability Round Table has been tireless in pursuit of self serving government actions that breach principles of good governance – especially breaches of the principle that public office is a public trust. In this article below she...
by jmsthornton | Sep 1, 2018 | Australasian Study of Parliament Group (ASPG), Public Trust, Trust in Government
The following paper on concepts of Public Trust, by David Solomon, longstanding member of Accountability Round Table, was given at the Australasian Study of Parliament Group (ASPG) conference held over July 19 and 20th, 2018. David is a former journalist, who after...
by jmsthornton | Aug 30, 2018 | Code of Conduct, Federal Government, Ministerial Responsibility, Public Trust
On Thursday 30th August, the new Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, released a set of Ministerial standards. These may be found at https://www.pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/government/statement-ministerial-standards . We reproduce them here so you can refer to them, and so...
by jmsthornton | Aug 25, 2018 | Code of Conduct, Corruption, Federal Government, Open Government, Public Trust, Reforms, Trust in Government
A National Symposium, Australia’s Public Integrity Institutions: Strengths, Weaknesses, Options was held in Canberra on 21 August 2018, auspiced by Griffith University Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Transparency International Its purpose was to identify...
