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 | Aug 2, 2021 | ART discussion series, News
Join us for our next event in ART’s discussion series 31 August 2021 – 5 pm to 7 pm. Have we developed a tolerance for politicians treating the public purse as a resource for maintaining their own party in power? Does no one mind that individual MPs...
by Lyn Allison | Aug 2, 2021 | ART Publications, News
Warning of the consequences if corruption is left unchecked! See here for a great interview on ABC Radio National with Fran Kelly today (2/8). In Easy Lies & Influence, Fiona McLeod AO SC, Senior Counsel and Chair of the Accountability Round Table, explores...
by Lyn Allison | Jul 17, 2021 | News, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Privacy
ART’s discussion series – data and privacy – July 2021 See here for the recording: Australian Governments are encouraging us to provide more and more personal data to be centrally stored and used by it to provide us with its services. The data we...
by Lyn Allison | Jun 18, 2021 | News, Workshops
This event is co-sponsored by Accountability Round Table and Deakin University. Accountability and the Rule of Law. Government Accountability and the Rule of Law are two fundamental features of liberal democracy, recently lauded by Prime Minister Morrison. As the name...
by Lyn Allison | May 11, 2021 | Annual Integrity Lecture, News
The Jim Carlton Annual Integrity Lecture was delivered by Glyn Davis AC, Distinguished Professor of Political Science on 7 May 2021 at the Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University – a collaboration between the Accountability Round Table (ART) and the Centre...