ART is disappointed in the response from the ALP and Coalition to its survey on accountability measures. It seems very unlikely, whichever party (or parties) forms government, that the next Federal Government will be willing to take on the reforms necessary to deliver best practice in integrity and accountability. ART Acting Chair, Ken Coghill welcomed the commitments from the Greens and said ART will encourage the cross bench to pursue these measures in the new Parliament.
| Labor TI response* | Coalition response | Greens’ response and backup docs. | |
| National Integrity System | |||
| Corruption control commission modeled on NSW ICAC; | No | No | Yes |
| Code of conduct for the House of Reps and the Senate | No | Yes | |
| Parliamentary integrity commissioner | No | Yes | |
| Cooling-off period for former minister accepting appointments related to former responsibilities | Ministers undertake 18 month cooling off | Yes | |
| Full whistle-blower protection in the public and private sector for Commonwealth matters | Yes | Limited to tax | Yes |
| Office of the Australian Information Commissioner | |||
| Adequate funding for OAIC to discharge strategic, policy, complaints & review functions of FOI plus Privacy. | No | Yes | |
| Appoint FOI, Privacy & Information Policy positions | No | Yes | |
| Independent inquiry into the operation of the OAIC | No | Yes | |
| Political campaign finance reform | |||
| Adopt NSW election financing measures for 2019: • caps on donations from individuals & organisations, • donations >$1,000 disclosed in continuous real time • caps on expenditure for parties, candidates & 3rd party campaigners | No
Disclosure threshold $1k No | No
No No | Yes
Yes Yes |
| An independent public inquiry to identify best practice for achieving transparent, accountable and cost effective election funding longer term for all Australian jurisdictions, progressed under the OGP | No. Agree to real time disclosure inquiry | No | Yes |
| Open Government Partnership | |||
| An effective partnership structure for consultation, joint decision-making, monitoring and reporting on OGP | Commit to ‘full participation’ | No | Yes |
| 1st National Action Plan to have Increasing Public Integrity, bold and potentially transformative commitments | No | Yes | |
| * The ALP responses are drawn from their advice to Transparency International |
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