Libs lash out at auditor's selection
The ACT's new auditor-general was selected in a ''dodgy process'', according to the Canberra Liberals.Liberals deputy leader Brendan Smyth resigned last week from his position on a powerful Assembly committee over the appointment of Maxine Cooper to the key post.
But the ACT Government says it is on firm legal ground over its handling of the selection process for the high-profile job.
Mr Smyth told the Assembly yesterday morning he was worried by the ''extraordinary and undue pressure placed on the committee'' by Chief Minister Katy Gallagher.
He alleged the Chief Minister tried to pressure the Public Affairs Committee by publicly announcing Dr Cooper was the Government's preferred candidate before the committee had made a decision on the job.
During the process, the committee took the unusual step of asking for legal advice on whether or not it could block the Government's appointment of Dr Cooper to the auditor-general's job.
Mr Smyth told the Assembly yesterday he had ''very serious concerns'' about the process that was followed in appointing Dr Cooper, the former ACT commissioner for the environment.
The Liberals frontbencher, speaking under parliamentary privilege, cast doubt on the independence of the appointment, saying the appointment had been made from within the ranks of the ACT Public Service.
''Normal practice outside the public service was not to appoint an external auditor from within your ranks,'' he said.
As Mr Smyth made his speech to the Assembly yesterday, his leader, Zed Seselja, interjected repeatedly.
''It's a dodgy process and it gets dodgier every day,'' Mr Seselja shouted at Ms Gallagher.
Mr Smyth was also concerned that on the evening of May 31, after Ms Gallagher made her announcement, Ms Cooper spoke to Greens MLA Caroline Le Couteur, chairwoman of the Public Accounts Committee, in an approach Mr Smyth described as ''inappropriate''.
''The chair ...
Procedure For Government Job Selection Committee - News
By law, candidates for top posts at independent bodies and government agencies require legislative support. There have been suggestions that some members of House Commission III, which oversees legal affairs and is in charge of the selection process,
But the ACT Government says it is on firm legal ground over its handling of the selection process for the high-profile job. Mr Smyth told the Assembly yesterday morning he was worried by the ''extraordinary and undue pressure placed on the committee''
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All about The Jan Lokpal Bill
The Jan Lokpal Bill (Hindi: जन लोकपाल विधेयक) (also referred to as the citizens’ ombudsman bill) is a proposed anti-corruption law in India. It is designed to effectively deter corruption, redress grievances and protect whistle-blowers. If passed and made into law, the bill seeks to create an ombudsman called the Lokpal (translation: protector of the people) – an independent body similar to the Election Commission of India with the power to investigate politicians and bureaucrats without prior government permission. First introduced in 1969, the bill has failed to become law for nearly over four decades.
In 2011, Gandhian rights activist Anna Hazare started a Satyagraha movement by commencing a fast unto death in New Delhi to demand the passing of the bill. The movement attracted attention in the media, and thousands of supporters. Following Hazare’s four day hunger strike, the Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated that the bill would be re-introduced in the 2011 monsoon session of the Parliament.
Attempts to draft a compromise bill, merging the Government’s version and that of the civil group’s version (Jan Lokpal), by a committee of five Cabinet Ministers and five social activists failed. The Indian government introduced its own version of the bill in the parliament, which the activists consider to be too weak.
BackgroundThe bill was first introduced by Shanti Bhushan in 1968 and passed in the 4th Lok Sabha in 1969. However, it did not get through in the Rajya Sabha, the upper house of the Parliament of India. Subsequent versions were re-introduced in 1971, 1977, 1985, 1989, 1996, 1998, 2001, 2005 and in 2008. But these never passed.
Renewed calls for the bill arose over resentment of the major differences between the draft 2010 Lokpal Bill prepared by the government and that prepared by the members of the associated activists movement – mainly comprising of N. Santosh Hegde a former justice of the Supreme Court of India and Lokayukta of Karnataka, Shanti Bhushan, Arvind Kejriwal and Prashant Bhushan a senior lawyer in the Supreme Court along with the members of the India Against Corruption movement.
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