by Lyn Allison | Jun 14, 2025 | News
Race Mathews was a giant force in public life. He was Gough Whitlam’s private secretary while Whitlam was in opposition in Federal Parliament. During that period he was instrumental in the development of the ALP policy of Medicare which had started life as...
by Lyn Allison | Jun 2, 2025 | Annual Integrity Lecture, News
In light of President Trump’s pardons of friends, associates and political allies, and President Biden’s pardon of his son, Hunter Biden, it has been observed that in a Presidential system there can occasionally, or indeed frequently, be an overreach of executive...
by Lyn Allison | Apr 2, 2025 | News
Our message to candidates and voters is this: members of parliament should always act in the interests of their constituents and the nation Parliament must hold Government to account reform is urgently needed in accessing information, campaign financing, lobbying, and...
by Lyn Allison | Mar 19, 2025 | News
‘The Pledge’ by Barry Jones At the first election to the Commonwealth Parliament in 1901, 15 Members of the House of Representatives and 8 Senators were chosen with the support of Labour organisations in each state. There was then no national party...
by Editor | Mar 16, 2025 | Failure to act, News
A major cause of public disillusionment with governments, public servants and big business is the number of instances of reprehensible behaviour or misuse of office for which the perpetrators do not appear to have been appropriately sanctioned or punished. Our...
by Lyn Allison | Feb 3, 2025 | Corruption, News
Democratic government is founded on the idea that decisions of government should reflect the will of those people eligible to vote and to vote, you must be a citizen of Australia and a resident in the electorate in which you are voting. It is people not corporations,...