Troubles in South Africa's coalition-led local governments are affecting accountability, governance stability and service delivery.
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In the wake of new revelations about clergy sex abuse and cover-up in Pennsylvania, civil lawsuits brought by abuse victims may be the only effective way to hold Catholic church officials accountable.
It is important that consideration is given to the role played by individuals working within departments, not just the government.
This week marks the 26th anniversary of the Westray mine disaster in Nova Scotia. There have been plenty of disasters since then but we still struggle to hold people to account when systems fail.
To stop sexual exploitation in the aid sector, more self-regulation by NGOs isn't the answer.
Despite good intentions, efforts to hold colleges and universities accountable often miss the mark. The reasons why range from politics to resistance among the institutions themselves.
A tumultuous era has ended and there's a silver lining to the cloud that has been hanging over South Africa.
The annual February festival of lampooning the largest visible donor lulls Australians into a false sense of security that there is a functioning political donations disclosure regime in place.
On Human Rights Day, and with Australia set to take up a seat on the UN Human Rights Council, here's a must-do list for this country to become a credible advocate for human rights.
Despite arguments that it is too loose, ambiguous and easy to hide behind, the 'public interest' is an integral part of the discourse, law, regulation and governance of modern democracies.
Its been 13 years since Mauritius introduced codes of corporate governance for listed companies with mixed results. Its experience is useful for other developing countries looking to do the same.
One scandal at the CBA stands out above all others, It set the scene for how the CBA board would handle future scandals, that is to obfuscate, prevaricate and litigate.
William Isdale speaks with The University of Queensland's Cameron Murray about the nature of 'grey gifts', soft corruption, and who stands to win (and lose) when these deals are made.
The move to consolidate security agencies under one minister upends generations of conventions on how security intelligence and executive police powers are managed separately.
In a free society, it ought never to be lawful for a government to detain people by executive order alone.
The amplified public concerns about executive pay that led to the cementing of reporting and disclosure into law, may start trend of voluntary disclosure among professional bodies.
For-profit corporations are deeply embedded in US national security infrastructure – and they're not going anywhere.
The drama caused by the return of Brain Molefe into South Africa's power utility, Eskom, signals a failure of accountability and corporate governance within the public sector.
Policing culture is often associated with a lack of transparency and a resistance to external examination.
Past presidents have made strange requests of the FBI, some of which were documented by J. Edgar Hoover.
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Adjunct Professor, National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University
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Senior Research Specialist in Democracy, Governance and Service Delivery at the Human Science Research Council and a Research Fellow Centre for African Studies, University of the Free State
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Senior Lecturer in Law, Charles Sturt University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Political Science, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Accounting, The University of Queensland
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Director, Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National University
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Adjunct Professor in Parliamentary Studies, Swinburne University of Technology
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Associate Professor, School of Media, Film and Journalism, Monash University
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Director, Graduate School of Government, University of Sydney
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Gary D Bouma is a Friend of The Conversation.
Emeritus Professor of Sociology, Monash University
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Associate Professor, Law School, La Trobe University
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Associate Professor in Communication and Public Relations, The University of Queensland
