The anti-corruption watchdog’s long-awaited findings provide some answers, but raise even bigger questions about what exactly the body is for.
AJ Brown
The prospects of Australia securing a strong federal anti-corruption agency have taken a huge leap forward.
Transparency sounds easy, but the debate unfolding over the form of Australia’s new national anti-corruption commission shows it can be anything but.
To maintain our best practice record, Australia must instigate overdue reform to recognise, manage and protect the role of whistleblowers.
Experts respond to a call from The Conversation to analyse and grade the major parties’ policies on the issue of a federal ICAC.
Transparency sounds easy, but the debate unfolding over the form of Australia’s new national anti-corruption commission shows it can be anything but.
Getting this long-awaited reform right is a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the parliament and government to strengthen Australia’s system of democracy against official corruption.
Demands are growing for strong public accountability.
For decades, Australian journalists have uncovered truth and aided the quest for good governance around the world – “telling it like it is” with the frankness that makes Australians so well-loved in so many nations.
The nation will soon head to the polls with public integrity a higher-profile issue than perhaps ever before in Australian history.