Transparency International Australia is pleased to provide the following comments and recommendations as part of the consultation into modernising Australia’s anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing regime.
Press freedom
HRLC, TIA and Griffith University make a series of recommendations for reforming Australian legislation pertaining to secrecy provisions.
We need consistent and world-leading protection for whistleblowers and public interest journalism, and a whistleblowing protection authority.
Urgent legislative reform is needed to support journalists and the level of press freedom a modern representative democracy like Australia should have.
This research presents the architecture of a new system – one that goes beyond punishing corruption and fosters the highest level of integrity across our government and parliament.
The availability of balanced, credible, far-reaching and accessible media channels is critical to advance our ambitious regional goals.