Let the sunshine in
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G’day John,

Still writing to you from couch – I am going under the knife in a week or so – I will you all posted!

On Thursday I had the honour of receiving an integrity award The Accountability Round Table.

In 2010, Accountability Round Table created two Parliamentary Integrity Awards for federal parliamentarians. They honour two former members of the federal Parliament, John Button and Alan Missen, in recognition of their outstanding commitment to the values, purposes and duties for which power was entrusted to them as members of the Australian Parliament.

Not many people know about this award but it is important.

I was very chuffed! Especially as the other awards winners were David Pocock, Monique Ryan and Catherine Holmes, Royal commissioner of the Robodebt Inquiry.

After the shocker of robodebt and the shockingly slow government response, Ms Holmes forensic examination of witnesses and her determination to get to the bottom of what went so wrong, was just what Australians needed.

I am a particular fan of Ms Holmes' call for politicians to lead on changing our social attitudes to people receiving welfare payments.  I’ve been one of those people and I can tell you that most people would rather have work, and a small number of people just can’t work.

But, boy oh boy is there a lot of work to do in the transparency and integrity space!

You know we have a problem when the people directly responsible for robodebt still haven’t faced any really serious consequences.
 

And this Government has a bill to water down our freedom of information laws.  

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and we still don’t have a Whistle blower protection Authority – and our whistle blowers are David’s standing up against Goliaths.  They end up losing their job, their livelihood, often their careers and in some cases their liberty.

And don’t get me started on the NACC!! So many people (including me) fought for years for a national corruption commission – And it has to date been a massive disappointment – we need to fix that quickly!

Australians like everyone else in the world gets a massive stream of disinformation about government and institutions, the only way to fight this – is to be more transparent.

Australians know our governments make mistakes – and can be dodgy but they’re not the enemy.

But, if we want good government
if want Australians to feel secure – 
if we want to take them with us when we are putting up reform –
then they have to trust us!!

That means letting the sunshine in – it’s the only way.
 

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