by jmsthornton | Oct 14, 2015 | Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Open Government Partnership (OGP)
The intransigence of the Attorney General on the matter of the abolition of the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner continues. This failure to act renders the government’s commitment to open government a hollow promise. In our latest letter, we...
by jmsthornton | Oct 7, 2015 | Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Open Government
In an article for The Conversation, Johan Lidberg of Monash University writes of the test for Turnbull in promoting open government and a “Government 2.0” approach to freedom of information, in what to do about Abbott’s FOI hostile approach and the...
by jmsthornton | Sep 11, 2015 | Auditor General, Corruption, Trust in Government, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
This submission is the third in a series of ART submissions to the Victorian Government on Victorian Government Integrity System Reform (see category at right). The first was Do we have a corruption problem in Victoria? The second was Reforming Victorian IBAC. This...
by jmsthornton | Sep 6, 2015 | IBAC, Submissions, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
ART has recently made a previous submission to the Victorian Government Do we have a corruption problem in Victoria? The submission below is our second on the subject of Victorian Government Integrity System Reform (see category at right). Our letter to Gavin Jennings...
by jmsthornton | Aug 25, 2015 | Corruption, Queensland, Queensland Crime and Corruption Commission (CCC), Queensland Crime Commissions
ART has made a submission to the Queensland Review of the Crime and Corruption Commission. This submission can be found on the Queensland Parliamentary website, and is also reproduced below. We are critical of the legislative changes that followed the Callinan/Aroney...