by Lyn Allison | Aug 25, 2021 | Ministerial Responsibility, News
Both major parties decline to allow ministerial staff to be questioned by parliamentary committees. Who then holds these staffers to account? The Statement of Ministerial Standards states that ministers must accept responsibility for their staffers’ actions. But do...
by Lyn Allison | Oct 21, 2020 | Corruption, Federal Government, Governance, Ministerial Responsibility, National Integrity Commission, News
2020 AGM address by Chair, Fiona McLeod, AO SC In the interests of transparency, I must begin with a disclosure. Before my engagement with the Open government partnership and ART (and for a time Transparency International Australia) I had very limited exposure –...
by jmsthornton | Feb 8, 2020 | ART Publications, Corruption, Federal Government, Ministerial Responsibility, News, Political Funding
McKenzie sacrificial lamb but corruption runs deeper By Stephen Charles AO QC, former Victorian Court of Appeal judge and director of The Centre for Public Integrity. Published online in the Canberra Times February 7 2020 – 4:30AM...
by jmsthornton | Sep 9, 2018 | Corruption, Governance, Ministerial Responsibility, Public Trust, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
Colleen Lewis, member of Accountability Round Table has been tireless in pursuit of self serving government actions that breach principles of good governance – especially breaches of the principle that public office is a public trust. In this article below she...
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 | 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...