Resourcing of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Australian OGP Commitment 3.1 – Submission 1

Resourcing of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Australian OGP Commitment 3.1 – Submission 1

Accountability Round Table has long held concerns about the protection of Freedom of Information given the abolition of the oversight body, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), followed by its restoration in a weakened and underfunded form....
Open Government Partnership – Our Letter to Malcolm Turnbull

Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 4. Freedom of Information.

FREEDOM OF INFORMATION Open Government Australia in its Draft National Action Plan includes Commitment 3.1 – Information management and access laws for the 21st century. At present the draft commitment reads; “We will ensure our information access laws are...
Open Government Partnership – Our Letter to Malcolm Turnbull

Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 3. A National Integrity Framework.

AN AMBITIOUS NATIONAL INTEGRITY FRAMEWORK Open Government Partnership Australia is developing a National Action Plan. The current Draft Plan  (as a subset of the commitment in theme 4, to Integrity in the public sector) now includes a commitment to a National...
Open Government Partnership – Our Letter to Malcolm Turnbull

Open Government Partnership – National Action Plan. ART Submission 2. Political Donations

OGP – NATIONAL ACTION PLAN – POLITICAL DONATIONS This second submission from Accountability Round Table suggesting changes to the Open Government Partnership Draft National Action Plan addresses Commitment 4.1, the commitment to examine the ‘framework of...