Election Disinformation and How to Deal with it
Election Disinformation and How to Deal with it An ART Position Paper. The Accountability Round Table (ART) is concerned, as we approach the 2022 Federal Election, that misinformation, disinformation and misleading or deceptive conduct by candidates and parties will...
EVENT 29 April 2022: Jim Carlton Lecture – ‘Liberty, Fraternity and – what was the other word?’
The Hon Barry Jones presents the Annual ART and Melbourne University Law School Jim Carlton Lecture, ‘Liberty, Fraternity and – what was the other word?’ How Equality fell off the political agenda in Australia Date: Friday 29 April 2022 Time: 6:00pm Host: Melbourne...
Book Launch! KEEPING THEM HONEST – Stephen Charles and Catherine Williams
KEEPING THEM HONEST: the case for a genuine national integrity commission and other vital democratic reforms, a new book by Stephen Charles and Catherine Williams was launched on Monday 4th April. See below for Stephen Charles opinion piece in The Age on 16 04 2022 on...
Setting Caps on Campaign Funding and Expenditure.
This briefing paper sets out ART's thinking on the twin problems of funding election campaigns - the scramble for donations to provide the wherewithal for candidates to run, and the continual escalation of the costs of running a campaign. PART 1: CANDIDATE AND PARTY...
Open Government Partnership – warning to Australia!
The Open Government Partnership (OGP), is an international organisation which now includes 78 countries and 76 local governments. Its purpose is to encourage governments to be more open, responsive and accountable to their citizens and work towards improving...
The Case for a National Integrity Commission
This article by Stephen Charles first appeared in the Saturday Paper of February 5 — 11, 2022 | No. 385 Thanks to Erik Jensen of the Saturday Paper for permission to republish. Stephen Charles is a retired judge of the Victorian Court of Appeal and a member of the...
Citizens should be the only ones making donations
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...
Misuse of Publicly Funded Electorate Resources – ART’s submission to Operation Watts (Victoria)
On 28 January 2022, Accountability Round Table made a submission to Operation Watts, the coordinated investigation of Party misuse of public resources between IBAC and the Victorian Ombudsman. Our submission was directed to the questions raised by IBAC and the...
INTEGRITY NOW! Download the Document & Contribute.
21 integrity reforms to restore The Rule of Law, Accountability and Public Trust 6 pm Wednesday 8 December by Zoom On Wednesday 8th December, former Prime Minister Hon Malcolm Turnbull will launch the Accountability Round Table reform project, Integrity now! to...
Easy Lies and Influence on YouTube
In Australia, corruption spends public funds in pursuit of power, rewards favour, and strips support from worthy programs. It silences journalists and those charged with upholding standards of integrity by depriving them of funding. Corruption rewards loyalty through...