Accountability Round Table proposes balanced electoral campaign reforms
While it is good that the Government has finally made public its proposed changes to the current campaign finance system, the Accountability Round Table (ART), a longstanding advocate for improving public accountability in Australia, is concerned the changes will not...
Elections and disinformation
Join us to hear AGM speaker, AEC Commissioner Tom Rogers - 6:45 pm 1st October 2024 at the Woodward Centre, Law Building, 10th floor 106/185 Pelham Street, Carlton. Book HERE for dinner and speaker . Book HERE for Zoom registration Tom Rogers has been the AEC...
Race Mathews biography
Race Mathews is an outstanding member of the labour movement. His remarkable roles are set out in this fresh biography, to be published on 1st October. He established ART - literally around his dining table - one of his many achievements. He fostered...
Look into political ads
Published in The Age 10 Aug Detoxing donations to candidates and parties is a necessary but not sufficient reform to campaign finance (Comment, August 9). It is the extraordinary spending on political advertising using traditional and social media that drives...
Vic government reverses bid to abolish Public Records Advisory Council
On Thursday 2nd May, the Victorian Legislative Council passed an amendment to the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024, which had previously included wording that abolished the Public Records Advisory Council. This vote...
Abolition of the Public Records Advisory Council
Our letter to the Premier of Victoria, Jacinta Allen: Dear Premier The Accountability Round Table is concerned by recent reports that the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024 would abolish the Public Records Advisory...
Whistleblower protection submission
Whether the source of information is official or unofficial, if it is legitimate information on government decision-making or government behaviour in practice, and it is not a matter to which the same exceptions as apply for FOI requests, it should be in the public...
Jim Carlton Integrity Lecture 8 May 2024 by Professor Raimond Gaita
The subject of the lecture: 'The Urgency of Ethical Challenges Facing the World' Introduction by The Hon. Barry Jones AC, Accountability Round Table: Raimond Gaita (1946- ) is an outstanding, but controversial, moral philosopher who agonises over...
FOI needs reforming
The Accountability Roundtable is urging greater reforms to Australia’s freedom of information regime. It is one of 16 organisations and individuals committed to greater transparency that signed an open letter to the Attorney-General, Mark Dreyfus, welcoming...
Code of Conduct for Ministers investigation
ART launches ministerial code of conduct investigation following comments by outgoing Premier and changes made to the code by new Premier Allan.