by jmsthornton | May 13, 2019 | National Integrity Commission, News, Public Trust
A critique of the low levels of accountability in Australian government and the lack of a National Integrity Commission by ART member Stephen Charles has been published today in The Age and the Sydney Morning Herald (13/05/2019). Stephen has provided ART with the...
by jmsthornton | Feb 3, 2019 | ART Publications, National Integrity Commission, News, Open Government Partnership (OGP), Trust in Government, Whistleblowing
This submission was made by ART to the Attorney General’s consultation on the establishment of a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. At the time it was written the Government proposal was to set up the Commission as follows: “The CIC will be established as...
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 | Nov 10, 2018 | National Integrity Commission
The Accountability Round Table through Fiona McLeod SC and Professor Colleen Lewis, has written to the Prime Minister on 1st October, putting the case for a National Integrity Commission. That letter, and its underwhelming departmental reply are reproduced below. 1...
by jmsthornton | Oct 2, 2018 | Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Privacy
The Senate Legal and Constitutional Affairs Committee’s inquiry into the Freedom of Information Legislation Amendment (Improving Access and Transparency) Bill 2018 was set up following the introduction of this Bill by Senator Rex Patrick on 22nd August 2018. The Bill...