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September 05, 2003

Keeping them honest

The Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance, Griffith University has prepared a paper, "Ministerial staff: a need for transparency and accountability?" as a submission to the Senate inquiry into the staff of members of parliament. The paper's authors, Anne Tiernan and Patrick Weller, identify five problems, namely:
  • the system has outgrown the arrangements designed to support and control it
  • it is premised on a number of myths and assumptions that have become redundant as the staffing institution has evolved
  • the roles and responsibilities of ministerial staff and the public service are ill-defined, undermining the quality of advice and support to ministers
  • there is too little public information about the operations of the staffing system
  • the ministerial staffing system lacks transparency
The paper is in Microsoft Word and can be found at http://www.aph.gov.au/senate/committee/fapa_ctte/mops/submissions/sub04.doc Posted by belinda at September 5, 2003 03:17 PM
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