Tag: Anika Gauja
Learning from that £1,600 duck house: now Australia tries to get to grips with parliamentary expenses
Australia is to get a new authority to oversee parliamentary expenses claims, and it will be modelled on Britain’s IPSA – which was also set up after a major expenses scandal. Anika Gauja and Marian Sawer say the new rules will improve transparency and accountability. But do they go far enough – specifically, in ensuring […]
The UK could take some lessons from Australia on fixed terms for party leaders so that election winners are guaranteed a full term in office
The Australian Labor Party has approved proposals from the party’s new leader Kevin Rudd, that the party’s leadership selection rules be changed so that parliamentarians and party members are able to elect party leaders. Anika Gauja writes that the UK’s political parties could consider another aspect of the reforms that ensure party leaders cannot be […]
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