by Lyn Allison | Sep 17, 2024 | News
Race Mathews is an outstanding member of the labour movement. His remarkable roles are set out in this fresh biography, to be published on 1st October. He established ART – literally around his dining table – one of his many achievements. ...
by Ken Coghill | Aug 10, 2024 | News, Political Advertising, Political Funding
Published in The Age 10 Aug Detoxing donations to candidates and parties is a necessary but not sufficient reform to campaign finance (Comment, August 9). It is the extraordinary spending on political advertising using traditional and social media that drives...
by jmsthornton | May 5, 2024 | News, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
On Thursday 2nd May, the Victorian Legislative Council passed an amendment to the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024, which had previously included wording that abolished the Public Records Advisory Council. This vote...
by jmsthornton | Apr 16, 2024 | News, Public Trust
Our letter to the Premier of Victoria, Jacinta Allen: Dear Premier The Accountability Round Table is concerned by recent reports that the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024 would abolish the Public Records Advisory...
by jmsthornton | Apr 12, 2024 | News
Whether the source of information is official or unofficial, if it is legitimate information on government decision-making or government behaviour in practice, and it is not a matter to which the same exceptions as apply for FOI requests, it should be in the public...
by Editor | Mar 27, 2024 | Annual Integrity Lecture, News
The subject of the lecture: ‘The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World’ Introduction by The Hon. Barry Jones AC, Accountability Round Table: Raimond Gaita (1946- ) is an outstanding, but controversial, moral philosopher who agonises over the state...