by jmsthornton | Nov 20, 2018 | National Integrity Commission
This article BY ART member David Harper, appealing for a “Federal ICAC”, appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald 14 November 2018. ...
by jmsthornton | Sep 22, 2018 | Federal Government, Governance, News, Open Government
The Guardian Australia newspaper has been running a project “The Transparency Project”, featuring a group of articles on their Government Accountability investigations over the week 17th to 21st September. They have aggregated them together on one page...
by jmsthornton | May 16, 2018 | Media, National Integrity Commission, Whistleblowing
Uncovering the cover-ups We know from recent history of the Church’s secrecy and avoidance of open process. But the Church is not the only institution to need scrutiny, as shown by the current Royal Commission into Banking. Government also should not be immune from...
by jmsthornton | Nov 23, 2016 | Corruption, National Integrity Commission, New South Wales
The NSW ICAC has been under sustained political pressure from those who stand to gain by weak investigatory bodies, to wind back its powers to investigate corruption in public service since its inquiry into Margaret Cuneen, and investigations into the Liberal Party....
by jmsthornton | Sep 11, 2015 | Auditor General, Corruption, Trust in Government, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
This submission is the third in a series of ART submissions to the Victorian Government on Victorian Government Integrity System Reform (see category at right). The first was Do we have a corruption problem in Victoria? The second was Reforming Victorian IBAC. This...