Six months after its 2025 re-election, the Australian Government faces serious integrity challenges. This report card assesses the Government’s actions – and inaction – across key democratic safeguards: transparency, merit-based appointments, limits on undue influence, strengthening the public service and support for the institutions that hold power to account. The paper urges the Government to...

Five ‘integrity scenario’ guidance materials, aimed at supporting the Victorian public sector to build a pro-integrity culture and corruption resistance. The guidance materials detail fictional scenarios of corruption or misconduct, and lessons to learn from the circumstances that allowed the conduct to go unchecked.

This paper contends that key details of the Australian Government’s flagship Help to Buy scheme have been hidden from proper parliamentary oversight. It reveals how the Help to Buy Program Directions 2025 hand sweeping powers to the executive, exempting crucial policy rules from parliamentary disallowance and scrutiny.

The Code of Conduct for Ministers sets out the expectations the Australian Government has of all its ministers. When taking decisions in, or in connection with, their official capacity, Ministers must act in the public interest. Ministers also have a special responsibility for ensuring their offices, and the Parliament as a whole, are safe and...

The review includes a range of practical actions that have been taken to improve pro-integrity cultures across the Victorian public sector. It provides a framework that can assist the sector to identify different approaches for the development of fit-for-purpose interventions. The analysis is shared here for the benefit of practitioners across the sector.