Much is made of the 21st century being a post-truth world. Many identified it when presidential spokesperson Kellyanne Conway defended White House Press secretary Sean Spicer’s fallacious claim about attendance numbers at Donald Trump’s inauguration. Kellyanne Conway infamously referred to Spicer’s assertions as “Alternative facts“. This became a catch cry of satirists, comedians and news […]
Corruption
Anti-corruption bodies and political corruption
Ruby-faced Gladys
Gladys Berejiklian’s long list of corrupt and incompetent governance of the State of NSW
Donation Transparency
Why transparency in political donations matters in the fight against government corruption
Anti-corruption models
Transparency international’s official assessment released in January 2019, indicated that corruption grew in Australia. During the current term of the Federal Coalition Government, Australia fell from 7th place to 13th place in 2015 and has not shifted since on Transparency International’s index. This relative stability is illusory. The indexed gap United Kingdom (80) and Austria […]