by Lyn Allison | Oct 20, 2020 | News
An unjust prosecution gets even worse, Spencer Zifcak The prosecution of former ACT Attorney-General, Bernard Collaery, and his client, Witness K, continues to play itself out before the ACT Supreme Court. This is a legal fiasco of the first order. The prosecution...
by jmsthornton | Jun 3, 2020 | Federal Government, Governance, News, Open Government, Submissions
This submission to the Senate Select Committee on COVID-19 was made by Accountability Round table on 27 May 2020. It addresses the absence of independent scrutiny of government actions during the period of the Covid19 crisis. In particular, the exclusion of...
by Lyn Allison | Apr 8, 2020 | News
ART Media | ART launches petitions calling on all Australian Parliaments to sit through the Covid-19 crisis The coronavirus pandemic has resulted in the greatest expansion of executive power in generations. Yet the evidence supporting these powers and the decisions...
by Lyn Allison | Feb 9, 2020
Former directors and members of ART Spencer Zifcak, Allan Myers Professor of Law at the Australian Catholic University, former President of Liberty Victoria, and former Chair of the Accountability Round Table. He specialises in International Human Rights Law,...
by Lyn Allison | Oct 15, 2019
Accountability Round Table Integrity Awards On 15th October 2019, ART welcomed two outstanding recipients of its awards for conspicuous integrity in the 45th Parliament: – The Speaker of the House of Representatives, Hon. Tony Smith MP, received the John Button...