by jmsthornton | Apr 5, 2022 | Election, Federal Government, News
Election Disinformation and How to Deal with it An ART Position Paper. The Accountability Round Table (ART) is concerned, as we approach the 2022 Federal Election, that misinformation, disinformation and misleading or deceptive conduct by candidates and parties will...
by jmsthornton | Sep 23, 2018 | Election, Federal Government, Political Funding, Privacy, South Australia, Victoria
Ever wondered what political parties do with the data they collect on you? Its amazingly unclear, especially since the Privacy Act does not apply. Equally obscure is how they pay for the software and analysis and what links the software has with other data collection...
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...
by jmsthornton | Nov 21, 2017 | Election, Queensland, Reforms
Following receipt of a letter from Annastacia Palaszczuk, QLD Premier, outlining her government’s activities on transparency and open government, ART circulated the following request for commitments by all QLD political parties to the same principles. We only...
by jmsthornton | Nov 21, 2017 | Election, Queensland, Reforms
Letter from Annastacia Palaszczuk, QLD Premier to Accountability Round Table: Commitments to Openness and Transparency ANNASTACIA PALASZCZUK MP PREMIER OF QUEENSLAND AND MINISTER FOR THE ARTS 26th October 2017 Dear Mr Smith When my Government was elected in... by jmsthornton | Jun 12, 2016 | Election, Election 2016, Federal Government, News
The public office, public, trust principle Parties are like football clubs – no matter how much money they get, they will spend it and then want more. Former Victorian Premier, John Cain, Oct 2006 Australia’s federal electoral system has few constraints on donations...