Invitation to sign up to ART eNews
ART publishes its first eNews. Right now accountability in politics is a hotly contested space and ART is working on many fronts to stop further decline in public trust in those who hold public office and to bring about reforms to improve standards of accountability,...
A Commonwealth Integrity Commission: ART’s submission to the Attorney General 1 Feb 2019
This submission was made by ART to the Attorney General's consultation on the establishment of a Commonwealth Integrity Commission. At the time it was written the Government proposal was to set up the Commission as follows: "The CIC will be established as an...
ART’s Victorian election survey
In the lead-up to the Victorian election, the Accountability Roundtable asked all candidates to respond to a range of questions concerning their support of integrity and accountability measures. Neither the Labor nor Liberal parties have responded. In fact, of the...
‘Guardian’ Transparency Project
The Guardian Australia newspaper has been running a project "The Transparency Project", featuring a group of articles on their Government Accountability investigations over the week 17th to 21st September. They have aggregated them together on one page along with some...
Fiona McLeod SC to head up ART
The Accountability Round Table is delighted to announce that eminent barrister Fiona McLeod SC has been appointed Chair of Accountability Round Table She replaces Tim Smith, a former Supreme Court judge and foundation President of ART, which he co-founded in 2006. “I...
Resourcing of OAIC – Response of ART to the Attorney General
The exchange of correspondence between ART and the AG on the deleterious effects on transparency and freedom of information caused by the lack of resources to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner continues. Here is a further attempt to raise the...
ART Submission – Open Government Partnership: Transition from NAP1 to NAP2
The ART submission to the Open Government Partnership National Action Plan round 2 calls for some specific reforms to accountability and openness processes. CONTENTS 1. WHY WE NEED A FEDERAL ANTI-CORRUPTION COMMISSION What evidence of corruption is there? Why do we...
Congratulations The Honourable Thomas Harrison Smith (Tim Smith) QC – now AM
Congratulations from all of Accountability Round Table and its friends to our Chair of the Accountability Round Table, Tim Smith, who is now the recipient of an Australia Day Honours Award 2018 – Member (AM) in the General Division of the Order of Australia. Tim is...
Stephen Charles argues IBAC is ‘Weak and defective’
Stephen Charles, Accountability Round Table member, warns against Australia adopting the Victorian IBAC Anticorruption model for a National Anticorruption body. This article is reposted from The Age and is available at its original source here. 'Weak and defective':...
Resourcing of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner – Australian OGP Commitment 3.1 – Submission 2
On 31 May 2017 there was a discussion between members of Accountability Round Table and the Department of the Attorney-General concerning Australia’s the OGP National Action Plan that resulted in our first submission on proper resourcing of the Office of the...