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Main Committee Room Friday 13 November 2009 |
Parliamentarians are elected to exercise political power on behalf of, and for, the communities they seek to represent. The political ethics of how that entrusted power is exercised are rightly the matter of public debate, as are the appropriate ways of dealing with those who abuse that power for personal gain or to entrench their party in power. Over the last fifteen years, there has been growing international support for a range of integrity agencies, from auditors-general to integrity commissioners, to guide elected and appointed officials towards the former and away from the latter. These agencies are collectively referred to as a ‘national integrity system’. This lecture asks whether such integrity systems diminish or enhance the role of Parliament.
Professor Charles Sampford is Director of the Institute for Ethics, Governance and Law (IEGL), a joint initiative of the United Nations University, Griffith University, Queensland University of Technology and the Australian National University. He was previously Foundation Dean of Law at Griffith University and Foundation Director of the ARC Key Centre for Ethics, Law, Justice and Governance.
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