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Defending his government’s performance reporting after criticism from the Queensland Audit Office, Campbell Newman said: “We inherited a suburban public transport system, a suburban rail system,

The Guardian (29 June 2014) carried a statement by Tony Fitzgerald QC on the ongoing ‘Queensland saga’.  In response to repeated requests for comment Mr Fitzgerald

The Brisbane Times reports that the Newman government has been accused of winding back reforms put in place after the Fitzgerald Inquiry, under proposed changes to the

Dr Kate Jones and Professor Scott Prasser on partisan appointments to public service Dr Kate Jones and Professor Scott Prasser argue in the Canberra Times (30.4.12) that

‘Effective, functioning democracy is unachievable while the public is uninformed or misinformed. Australian democracy is now not merely or even substantially a contest between political parties

In August 2012 Daniel Hurst reported in the Brisbane Times that the Newman government had been accused of trying to gag community organisations, preventing them from pushing

Dr David Solomon AM, Queensland Integrity Commissioner, speech to the launch of the TJRyan Foundaton, February 2014, in which he addressed the problem of nepotism. Nepotism

The text of the address by the Rev Dr Noel Preston AM to the Queensland Council of Unions rally in November 2013 about the misuse of

In this article Andrew Trotter and Harry Hobbs argue that the ‘roll-back of carefully crafted institutions of good governance, primarily instigated by the Attorney-General, must be