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New politics: preventing pork-barrelling

19 Aug 2022

their powers in the public interest.3 Inquiries in the UK and Australia have also attempted to define the boundaries of acceptable conduct for Elections and anti-corruption laws provide important checks on the people in public office.4 conduct of governments. [...] For example: ‘Ministers are expected to conduct all official business on the basis that they may be expected to demonstrate publicly that their actions and decisions 1.1 Pork-barrelling is not in the public interest in conducting public business were taken with the sole objective of advancing the A core part of our democratic system is that Australians place trust public interest’: Department of t. [...] The public considers this a serious breach of faith: more has had the largest decline of top-10 ranked countries (from a score of 85 and a rank of 7th in 2012, to a score of 73 and a rank of 18th in 2021). [...] Twomey (2021a) states that pork-barrelling ‘undermines the fairness of elections and aids democratic decay by heightening public distrust of politicians and the efficacy of the system of government’. [...] Analysis by The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age of 19,000 The worst offender in our analysis was the second round of the NSW federal grants allocated under 11 grant programs between 2017 and Stronger Communities Fund.
pork-barrelling, public integrity, politics, government

Authors

Danielle Wood, Kate Griffiths, Anika Stobart

Pages
43
Published in
Australia