Annual Conference
2-4 October 2013
PERTH

You can access the key conference documents from the links below:

Conference theme and program: Oversight: Parliamentary Committees, Corruption Commissions and Parliamentary Statutory Officers

Conference papers:

Closing the Gap: The Case for a Commonwealth Anti-Corruption and Misconduct Commission
Brian Toohey

Anti-Corruption Authorities and Accountability: The Western Australian Case
Bruce Stone and Michael Sheldrick

Anti-Corruption Authorities and Accountability: The Western Australian Case (Appendix)
Bruce Stone and Michael Sheldrick

Victoria’s New Integrity System
Clem Newton-Brown and Philip Davis

Victoria’s New Integrity System: Independent Broad-based Anti-corruption Commission Committee – Accountability and Oversight Committee
Clem Newton-Brown and Philip Davis

Independent Officers and Oversight Committees: The Western Australia Audit Experience
Colin Murphy

Independent Officers and Oversight Committees: The Western Australia Audit Experience (Appendix)
Colin Murphy

The integrity branch – parliament’s failure or opportunity?
David Solomon

Oversight of Independent Statutory Roles – Is it time for more  comprehensive codification?
Des Pearson

Oversight of Independent Statutory Roles – Is it time for more  comprehensive codification? (Appendix)
Des Pearson

The Parliament of New South Wales and the Independent Commission Against Corruption: Recent interactions on matters of privilege and future issues
Don Harwin

Reflections on a Fourth Branch of Government
Hon Wayne Martin

Watching our watch-dogs: current models for accountability and independence
Jacquie Stepanoff

Commonwealth Oversight Arrangements – Successes and Challenges
John McMillan

Financial Overseers and their Oversight – A New South Wales Public Accounts Committee Perspective
Jonathan O’Dea

Financial Overseers and their Oversight – A New South Wales Public Accounts Committee Perspective (Appendix)
Jonathan O’Dea

Developing Parliament’s Oversight Capacity Through MPs’ Professional Development
Ken Coghill

Committee Review of Executive Decisions: Ruber Stamp or Game Changer?
Madeleine Foley

Combating Corruption Parliament’s Man: An Effective Tool?
Michael Murray

The Council of Territory Cooperation in the 11th Assembly – An Experiment in Parliamentary Committee Oversight in the Northern Territory
Michael Tatham

Recent developments in financial scrutiny in New Zealand
Paul Goldsmith

Oversight as it Intersects with Parliament
Roger Macknay

Queensland’s Crime and Misconduct Commission: To be or not to be … that should be the question!
Scott Prasser

There’s a touch too much integrity – a time to wind back rather than wind up?
Scott Prasser

Evolving Oversight ‐ The Australian Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit
Shane Armstrong

Evolving Oversight ‐ The Australian Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit (Appendix)
Shane Armstrong

Tales of Watchdogs and Lapdogs: A Parliamentary Committee Inquiry into the Crime and Misconduct Commission’s Treatment of Fitzgerald Inquiry Records
Stephen Finnimore

Locating the ethical in the integrity branch: towards a theoretical framework for ethics in oversight bodies
Yvonne Haigh

Whitmore Lecture 2013: Forewarned and Four-Armed – Administrative Law Values and the Fourth Arm of Government
Chief Justice of Western Australia, Hon Wayne Martin AC