\n| Other (please specify) \u2013 see below for specific suggestions<\/td>\n | \u00a033.33%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n It\u2019s early days yet- this being the first real effort at promotion but the quality of suggestions is encouraging:<\/p>\n \n- Statement to be provided of who travelled, or consumed expenses, with them [viz Partners, Children, Friends or the like] and such expenses not to be Taxpayer liability. (11\/1\/2013 9:19 AM)<\/li>\n
- Any fraudulent claims [Charity benefits] must be pursued by AFP as a Crime, the same as in Private Enterprise. (11\/1\/2013 9:00 AM)<\/li>\n
- Minchin Protocol to be abolished (11\/1\/2013 8:45 AM)<\/li>\n
- MPs get paid enough. Let them pay their own expenses for everything except overseas travel, if proven necessary. (11\/1\/2013 8:44 AM)<\/li>\n
- Rules also need to be limited. An MP is supposed to represent THEIR electorate, should be no spending out side of that electorate without very strict conditions. NO spending on party business should be allowed at all. (11\/1\/2013 8:38 AM)<\/li>\n
- That all official receipts, invitations, & associated paperwork for events & functions are scanned & placed onto database as attachment to each expense entry. Proof of information will help to stop rorting as they will think twice before claiming. (10\/31\/2013 12:48 PM)<\/li>\n
- There was also a media piece on banning parliamentarians from employing spouses and other family members ie.double dipping. Could be covered in Code of Conduct (10\/31\/2013 10:56 AM)<\/li>\n
- Report monthly on a public accessible website (10\/31\/2013 9:49 AM)<\/li>\n
- MPs pay their own expenses up front and are repaid after being cleared by independent auiditor (10\/31\/2013 9:26 AM)<\/li>\n
- Online instant notification of claims will allow much needed scrutiny.(10\/31\/2013 9:17 AM)<\/li>\n
- Purchasing Rules to ensure more efficient (and non-crony-related) spending of electorate funds, eg \u201cMust use commercial printing service for more than a designated number of copies\u201d. \u201cUse phone or Skype in place of personal travel wherever practicable\u201d. (10\/30\/2013 7:39 PM)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
If the Estonians and Romanians can increase government transparency through citizen-lead initiatives then I challenge Aussies to do the same. Have your say in the survey- give me something more than a tweet to send to parliament \u00a0and show the world that Australian\u2019s do care about government accountability and are willing to do something about it. Parliament returns in coming weeks \u2013 let\u2019s show the new parliament that Australians are not just watching \u2013 we are playing our role in improving democracy as engaged citizens!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" By Rosie Williams 1 November 2013 Source:\u00a0InfoAus What do you, I and US Secretary of State John Kerry have in common? We are all protagonists of grassroots activism. You can\u2019t have democracy without the demos and I heard John Kerry tell of the grassroots activism leading to the establishment of the Environmental Protection Agency this […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3434,514,61,62,67,585,1496,1452],"tags":[513,184,531,242,344,424],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t0mw-2RH","jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.nofibs.com.au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} |
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