by Lyn Allison | Feb 13, 2019 | News
ART publishes its first eNews. Right now accountability in politics is a hotly contested space and ART is working on many fronts to stop further decline in public trust in those who hold public office and to bring about reforms to improve standards of accountability,...
by jmsthornton | Feb 3, 2019 | ART Publications, National Integrity Commission, News, Open Government Partnership (OGP), Trust in Government, Whistleblowing
This submission was made by ART to the Attorney General’s consultation on the establishment of a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. At the time it was written the Government proposal was to set up the Commission as follows: “The CIC will be established as...
by Lyn Allison | Nov 23, 2018 | IBAC, News, Victoria
In the lead-up to the Victorian election, the Accountability Roundtable asked all candidates to respond to a range of questions concerning their support of integrity and accountability measures. Neither the Labor nor Liberal parties have responded. In fact, of the...
by jmsthornton | Sep 22, 2018 | Federal Government, Governance, News, Open Government
The Guardian Australia newspaper has been running a project “The Transparency Project”, featuring a group of articles on their Government Accountability investigations over the week 17th to 21st September. They have aggregated them together on one page...
by jmsthornton | Jun 17, 2018 | News
The Accountability Round Table is delighted to announce that eminent barrister Fiona McLeod SC has been appointed Chair of Accountability Round Table She replaces Tim Smith, a former Supreme Court judge and foundation President of ART, which he co-founded in 2006. “I...
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...