by Emma | Oct 23, 2026 | Corruption, Election, Governance, Public Trust, transport, Vic Election 2026, Victoria
23 October 2026 Integrity is required by both those who seek our vote and those who are involved in or influence their campaigns.The ballot box is where voters pass judgement on those who govern them. It’s slow and clunky, but it’s democracy. This form of...
by Emma | Jul 28, 2026 | Corruption, IBAC, IBAC, Ministerial Responsibility, News, Public Trust, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
28 July 2026 ART welcomes the opportunity to enhance government accountabilityWhere there is huge wastage of public funds on major projects, and particularly where organisations aligned to governmentbenefit from those public funds, corruption issues inevitably arise...
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 | Feb 7, 2022 | News, Political Funding, Public Trust
This letter by Ken Coghill of ART, was published in the Age on 5th February 2022. Citizens should be the only ones making donations By authorising political donations, company directors place themselves in an impossible position: either they have misused resources of...
by jmsthornton | Aug 28, 2019 | News, Open Government, Public Trust, Queensland, Reforms, Trust in Government
2019 Solomon Lecture Accountability in the Age of the Artificial Are big data and artificial intelligence the enemies of the people, the ultimate tools of the oligarch, or the vital tools needed to eliminate bias, improve scrutiny and just outcomes for the visionary?...
by jmsthornton | May 13, 2019 | National Integrity Commission, News, Public Trust
A critique of the low levels of accountability in Australian government and the lack of a National Integrity Commission by ART member Stephen Charles has been published today in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald (13/05/2019). Stephen has provided ART with the...