Open Government Week May 8-12
Open Government Week 2023 will be used globally to develop and implement the OGP’s new five-year strategy that seeks to expand and empower the community, making open government the norm across all levels and branches of government, and becoming a hub of stories and...
National Anti-corruption Bill – ART’s response
The Accountability Round Table welcomes the introduction of the National Anti-Corruption Commission Bill and acknowledges this as a breakthrough moment for integrity and accountability of our national government. The Bill provides for the creation of a powerful...
INTEGRITY AWARDS 2022
You are invited to the presentation of the Accountability Round Table Integrity Awards. Four awards will be presented by Chair of ART, Prof Spencer Zifcak at Parliament House on Monday 5 September at 11am. Since 2010 ART has recognised parliamentarians who have...
EVENT VIDEO. Political Donations. A problem for our democracy?
On Wednesday - 23 March, 2022, ART's Charles Sampford and Ken Coghill addressed the Victorian Fabian Society on "Political Donations. A problem for our democracy?". Political donations are a problem because they are reported far past the time they are made, the actual...
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...
Australia Day: a long perspective by Barry Jones
Australia Day 65,000 BCE, 1788 CE and 2023: a long perspective. 65,000 BCE Homo sapiens first arrived in Australia about 65,000 years before ‘the common era’, or BCE. We cannot pin down a specific day for their arrival. We don’t use the abbreviations AD or BC of the...
ART Integrity Awards presented in Parliament today
The awards The Button Award for ministers who served on the front bench - The Hon Dr Andrew Leigh MP for his exemplary performance in raising the level of debate on economic and social issues Dr Leigh said: Humbled to have received the Accountability Round Table's...
SPEECH. The Hon Barry Jones Jim Carlton Lecture. ‘Liberty, Fraternity and – what was the other word?’
JIM CARLTON INTEGRITY LECTURE 2022 Accountability Round Table (ART) - Melbourne Law School (MLS) The Hon Barry Jones presented the Annual ART and Melbourne University Law School Jim Carlton Lecture at Melbourne Law School on Friday 29 April 2022 ‘Liberty, Fraternity...
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...
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...