by Emma | Jul 28, 2026 | Corruption, IBAC, IBAC, Ministerial Responsibility, News, Public Trust, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
28 July 2026 ART welcomes the opportunity to enhance government accountabilityWhere there is huge wastage of public funds on major projects, and particularly where organisations aligned to governmentbenefit from those public funds, corruption issues inevitably arise...
by Lyn Allison | Jun 24, 2025 | Election, Ministerial Responsibility, News, Political Funding
The Albanese Government signed off on a code of conduct for ministers in 2022 saying it was committed to integrity, honesty and accountability and would act in a manner consistent with the highest ethical standards. It would also have due regard for...
by Lyn Allison | Aug 25, 2021 | Ministerial Responsibility, News
Both major parties decline to allow ministerial staff to be questioned by parliamentary committees. Who then holds these staffers to account? The Statement of Ministerial Standards states that ministers must accept responsibility for their staffers’ actions. But do...
by Lyn Allison | Oct 21, 2020 | Corruption, Federal Government, Governance, Ministerial Responsibility, National Integrity Commission, News
2020 AGM address by Chair, Fiona McLeod, AO SC In the interests of transparency, I must begin with a disclosure. Before my engagement with the Open government partnership and ART (and for a time Transparency International Australia) I had very limited exposure –...
by jmsthornton | Feb 8, 2020 | ART Publications, Corruption, Federal Government, Ministerial Responsibility, News, Political Funding
McKenzie sacrificial lamb but corruption runs deeper By Stephen Charles AO QC, former Victorian Court of Appeal judge and director of The Centre for Public Integrity. Published online in the Canberra Times February 7 2020 – 4:30AM...
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...