by jmsthornton | May 11, 2018 | Corruption, Federal Government, National Integrity Commission, Public Service, Reforms, Trust in Government
Colleen Lewis, member of Accountability Round Table, has penned an article for the Canberra Times calling for a similar level of scrutiny of the public sector as applies to the banks through the Banking Royal Commission. Find the original article here....
by jmsthornton | May 7, 2018 | News
The exchange of correspondence between ART and the AG on the deleterious effects on transparency and freedom of information caused by the lack of resources to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner continues. Here is a further attempt to raise the...
by jmsthornton | Apr 30, 2018 | Corruption, Freedom of Information, News, Open Government Partnership (OGP), Political Funding
The ART submission to the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan round 2 calls for some specific reforms to accountability and openness processes. CONTENTS 1. WHY WE NEED A FEDERAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION What evidence of corruption is there? Why do we...
by jmsthornton | Apr 13, 2018 | Federal Government, Freedom of Information, National Integrity Commission, Open Government Partnership (OGP), Political Funding, Public Trust, Submissions
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...
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...
