by Ken Coghill | Apr 22, 2024 | Code of Conduct
Our submission on the Parliamentary Workplace Standards and Integrity Bill 2024 focused on four integrity issues a legislated Ministerial Code of Conduct; jurisdiction of the Parliamentary Integrity Commissioner; the appointment process for the PIC;...
by Lyn Allison | Oct 14, 2020 | Code of Conduct, News
On ABC Radio National this morning ART Chair, Fiona McLeod SC, said: That statement – I don’t need to know – does suggest she [Gladys Berejiklian] is seeking to distance herself from information that might compromise her and the problem is that when...
by jmsthornton | Aug 30, 2018 | Code of Conduct, Federal Government, Ministerial Responsibility, Public Trust
On Thursday 30th August, the new Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, released a set of Ministerial standards. These may be found at https://www.pmc.gov.au/resource-centre/government/statement-ministerial-standards . We reproduce them here so you can refer to them, and so...
by jmsthornton | Aug 25, 2018 | Code of Conduct, Corruption, Federal Government, Open Government, Public Trust, Reforms, Trust in Government
A National Symposium, Australia’s Public Integrity Institutions: Strengths, Weaknesses, Options was held in Canberra on 21 August 2018, auspiced by Griffith University Centre for Governance and Public Policy and Transparency International Its purpose was to identify...
by jmsthornton | Jan 29, 2018 | Code of Conduct, Corruption, Lobbying
Ken Coghill, Accountability Round Table member, warns of risks to government integrity from the sharing of confidential government information of commercial interest by those who move from the government to the private sector. This article is reposted from The Age and...
by jmsthornton | Nov 24, 2017 | Code of Conduct, Corruption, Election, Fitzgerald Principles, Ministerial Responsibility, Open Government, Political Funding, Queensland, Reforms
The letter below from Jackie Trad, Deputy Premier of Queensland, was received by Tim Smith and David Solomon in response to our request for all party commitments on openness and transparency and the principles of “Public Trust”. It follows from the letter...