by jmsthornton | Dec 1, 2021 | Integrity Now!
RECOMMENDATIONS Recommendations to protect and enhance the Rule of Law, Accountability and the Public Trust in Australia Overall ART recommends a set proposals involving strengthening of, and some judicious additions to, a range of independent integrity and...
by Lyn Allison | Sep 20, 2021 | National Integrity Commission, News
Stephen Charles, Director of ART The Coalition has been promising Australia a federal Integrity Commission for nearly three years, and Christian Porter (when Attorney-General) produced an Exposure Draft for an Integrity Commission over 12 months ago. Why do we not now...
by Lyn Allison | Oct 20, 2020 | News
An unjust prosecution gets even worse, Spencer Zifcak The prosecution of former ACT Attorney-General, Bernard Collaery, and his client, Witness K, continues to play itself out before the ACT Supreme Court. This is a legal fiasco of the first order. The prosecution...
by jmsthornton | Feb 8, 2020 | ART Publications, Corruption, Federal Government, Ministerial Responsibility, News, Political Funding
McKenzie sacrificial lamb but corruption runs deeper By Stephen Charles AO QC, former Victorian Court of Appeal judge and director of The Centre for Public Integrity. Published online in the Canberra Times February 7 2020 – 4:30AM...
by jmsthornton | Sep 1, 2019 | Corruption, Federal Government, Fitzgerald Principles, Open Government, Queensland Crime Commissions
Stephen Charles 26 August 2019 Held at Griffith University. This is the text of the 2019 Fitzgerald Oration as provided to Accountability Round Table by Stephen Charles. This oration is in honour of Tony Fitzgerald of the Queensland Fitzgerald inquiry which changed...