by jmsthornton | Mar 30, 2022 | News
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...
by jmsthornton | Mar 17, 2022 | News
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:...
by Lyn Allison | May 11, 2021 | Annual Integrity Lecture, News
The Jim Carlton Annual Integrity Lecture was delivered by Glyn Davis AC, Distinguished Professor of Political Science on 7 May 2021 at the Melbourne Law School, Melbourne University – a collaboration between the Accountability Round Table (ART) and the Centre...
by Lyn Allison | Oct 21, 2020 | Corruption, Federal Government, Governance, Ministerial Responsibility, National Integrity Commission, News
2020 AGM address by Chair, Fiona McLeod, AO SC In the interests of transparency, I must begin with a disclosure. Before my engagement with the Open government partnership and ART (and for a time Transparency International Australia) I had very limited exposure –...
by jmsthornton | Jun 3, 2020 | Federal Government, Governance, News, Open Government, Submissions
This submission to the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 was made by Accountability Round table on 27 May 2020. It addresses the absence of independent scrutiny of government actions during the period of the Covid19 crisis. In particular, the exclusion of...