The Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit is conducting an inquiry into matters contained and associated with the following Auditor-General's Reports: • No. 11 (2019-20) Implementation of the Digital Continuity 2020 Policy • No. 31 (2019-20) Management of Defence Housing Australia • No. 39 (2019-20) Implementation of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation […]

On 23 July 2019, the Senate referred an inquiry into press freedom to the Environment and Communications References Committee for report by 4 December 2019. On 28 April 2021 the Senate grant an extension of time to report until 19 May 2021.

Preparation for 'Accountability and the Rule of Law' document

Referred to committee for inquiry 7 October, Reporting date 31 May 2021

Australian Governments are encouraging us to provide more and more personal data to be centrally stored and used by it to provide us with its services. The data we supply to government is also collected from us without our explicit knowledge. It might come from our clicks on government websites, or from cameras on roads […]

Have we developed a tolerance for politicians treating the public purse as a resource for maintaining their own party in power? Does no one mind that individual MPs benefit from using their position for personal gain? Or is it just a one-day wonder in the news? Propping all this up are the porkies that politicians […]