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How to encourage Rozzoli and Coghill, authors of a study on "Why Accountability [in Australian Politics] Must be Renewed"?
(see The Age here)
"The report proposes:
* narrowing grounds for exemption so that the only documents withheld as cabinet documents are those "whose release may undermine the unanimity of cabinet or which may jeopardise fundamental matters of public interest such as the administration of justice and national security";
* requiring ministers be answerable to parliament for every action of public servants, personal staff and other personnel acting under their prerogative;
* barring ministers and parliamentary secretaries from working in the private sector within five years of leaving politics;
* appointing a parliamentary standards commissioner with powers to investigate breaches of the accountability guidelines."
(see The Age here)
"The report proposes:
* narrowing grounds for exemption so that the only documents withheld as cabinet documents are those "whose release may undermine the unanimity of cabinet or which may jeopardise fundamental matters of public interest such as the administration of justice and national security";
* requiring ministers be answerable to parliament for every action of public servants, personal staff and other personnel acting under their prerogative;
* barring ministers and parliamentary secretaries from working in the private sector within five years of leaving politics;
* appointing a parliamentary standards commissioner with powers to investigate breaches of the accountability guidelines."