TIA strongly supports enhanced transparency and accountability in resources sector regulation. Enhanced transparency and accountability measures not only reduce corruption risks, they create more certainty for the industry.
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TIA supports this bill, it is part of a much-needed package of pro-integrity reform.
TIA supports this bill, it is part of a much-needed package of pro-integrity reform.
The standard could be further strengthened by providing additional details and requirements around community participation and engagement, conflicts of interest, and whistleblowing protections.
It’s important for the mining approvals processes across Australia to have mechanisms in place to prevent corruption from occurring and ensure that the the sector is productive and trusted.
Urgent legislative reform is needed to support journalists and the level of press freedom a modern representative democracy like Australia should have.
The appointment of Christopher Pyne, former Minister of Defence, illustrates weaknesses in the regulation and oversight of the Ministerial Standards and the influence of lobbyists as a defining feature of Australia’s political landscape.
Transparency International’s M4SD Programme broadly endorses the findings and recommendations in the Discussion Paper. In our comments, we elaborate on some areas we consider to be especially important and identify further opportunities to strengthen anticorruption efforts.
The Australian Government needs to address, without delay, the weaknesses in our laws and efforts to ensure Australia joins countries like the United Kingdom, United States and Canada as leaders in combatting bribery; and fully implement its commitments under the OECD Convention, including full implementation of all OECD Working Group recommendations.
Transparency International’s 2018 Exporting Corruption report found that out of 44 parties to the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention only seven countries are in the top active enforcement category and four are in the next moderate enforcement category.