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The School of Government and International Relations cordially invites you to the 2018 Distinguished Lecture. Professor A.J. Brown joins past presenters: Professors Ciaran O’Faircheallaigh, Jason Sharman, Renee Jeffery, Patrick Weller, and John Kane and Haig Patapan, to give insights into a pressing issue of our time.
Professor Brown will draw on his extensive research and practical expertise to present: A National Integrity Commission - Options for Australia
Every Australian state, and even both territories, have or will soon have a broad-based, independent integrity or anti-corruption commission. But as a Senate Select Committee reported last year, the Commonwealth Government alone does not – despite having a multi-agency system which is ‘complex and poorly understood… opaque, difficult to access and challenging to navigate’.
This year’s Distinguished Lecture will present a new picture of the options for the Commonwealth Government to undertake long overdue strengthening of its public integrity system – drawing on initial results from Australia’s second National Integrity System Assessment, the Griffith University-led Australian Research Council Linkage Project ‘set to help shape any new anti-corruption structure’ (Linda Mottram, ABC Radio PM, February 2018).
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Date: Thursday 23 August 2018
Time: 5.30pm: Registration | 6.00pm: Lecture commences | 7.00pm: Drinks and canapes
Venue: Lecture Theatre and Art Museum (Building S05), Queensland College of Art, Griffith University South Bank campus, Grey Street, South Brisbane
Register: Register your attendance below by Friday 17 August.
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I very much look forward to welcoming you to this year’s Distinguished Lecture.
Yours sincerely,
Associate Professor Robyn Hollander
Head of the School of Government and International Relations
Griffith Business School
Questions?
For more information please contact Tracee McPate 07 3735 4032 or t.mcpate@griffith.edu.au
 Professor A J Brown
is leader of the Centre for Governance & Public Policy’s public
integrity and anti-corruption research program, and program director of
Griffith University’s new Graduate Certificate in Integrity and Anti-corruption. He has led six Australian Research Council projects
into public integrity and governance reform since 2005, including three
into public interest whistleblowing. A 25-year veteran of developments
in Australia’s integrity systems, since 2010 he has been a board member
of Transparency International Australia, and in October 2017 was elected
to the global board of the world anti-corruption organisation. In 2012,
his biography Michael Kirby: Paradoxes & Principles was shortlisted
for the Prime Minister’s Literary Award, Walkley Book Award and
National Biography Award.
He is the 2017-18 President of the Australian Political
Studies Association, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law, member
of the Commonwealth Government’s Expert Advisory Panel on Whistleblower
Protection, and project leader of Australia’s second national integrity
system assessment.
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