25th November 2019
From The Conversation – Yee-Fui Ng • 25/11/2019 ““Commentators have roundly criticised the government’s model for being watered down and a sham.”.” Read the full article here
14th May 2019
Stephen Charles and the Attorney General were interviewed about a national integrity body, by Nicole Chvastek on ABC Radio. Listen to it on https://www.abc.net.au/radio/ballarat/programs/drive/drive/11085856; their segment commences at 1:06:45 and runs until 1:27:30.
14th May 2019
From the Mandarin – Stephen Easton • 13/05/2019 “Labor would at least match the Coalition’s commitment to spend $104.5 million over four years on a federal anti-corruption commission, and while 80% of Australians support one with a full suite of strong powers, public hearings remain the key issue.” Read the full article here David Muir, Chair…
14th May 2019
In the following letter, AOGPN Chair Ken Coghill confirms that the following letter (responding to a string of letters published in the Sunday Age) complaining about the flood of mail from Josh has not been published: AEC figures on Liberal fund-raising in Kooyong explain the extra-ordinary swamping of voters with targeted personal letters, large numbers of…
16th March 2019
Join us for the National Integrity Forum. This is an important opportunity to engage and participate in the discussion of our integrity system. Book here
2nd March 2019
This March, the Office of the National Data Commissioner (the Office) is hosting another series of roundtable discussions on the Data Sharing legislation to show how their thinking has evolved based on your feedback and to hear your views. To register, please select the city and date you are available to attend: 12th of March – Adelaide…
30th January 2019
The index ranks 180 countries and territories by their perceived levels of public sector corruption according to experts and business people, using a scale of 0 to 100, where 0 is highly corrupt and 100 is very clean. More than two-thirds of countries score below 50 on this year’s CPI, with an average score of…
21st January 2019
From the OGP: “We are pleased to announce that the Call for Proposals has opened for the 6th OGP Global Summit to be hosted by the Government of Canada from May 29-31, 2019 in Ottawa, Canada. As we build the agenda, we invite you to submit proposals for sessions and speakers on the following…
19th December 2018
From Paul Maassen Chief, Country Support Open Government Partnership At its recent meeting held in Washington D.C. on December 5-6 2018, the Open Government Partnership (OGP) Steering Committee discussed the situation concerning OGP civil society Steering Committee member Aidan Eyakuze, who has been unable to leave his home country Tanzania after having his passport confiscated…
18th December 2018
The Network Steering Committee has responded to the government’s self assessment of Australian performance in implementing a national action plan on open government reforms. Open Government Partnership rules require an end of term government report on Australia’s National Action Plan 2016-2018. Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet allowed two weeks for comment and feedback on the…