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Where Australian parties stand on integrity & anti-corruption

11 parties on record · party platforms in their own words

Each position below is sourced exclusively from the party's own published materials — never from media coverage. Click a party for its full platform, donors and members. Individual members' own stated positions are on their record pages.

Australian Labor Party party platform

The 2023 ALP National Platform states that the National Anti-Corruption Commission Labor promised "is already up and running, helping to restore to government the honesty, integrity and accountability that are the lifeblood of the trust upon which our democracy is built."

Australian Greens party platform

The platform calls for Truth in Political Advertising laws with enforceable penalties for false or misleading political ads, and states that funding for anti-corruption and integrity agencies should be set at arm's length from government by an independent tribunal rather than controlled by politicians.

Victorian Socialists party platform

The party states that socialist democracy should guarantee the right to recall elected representatives, give elected representatives no special privileges, and subject all political and civic institutions to democratic control.

Animal Justice Party party platform

The party supports efforts to improve equity, transparency, integrity and accountability in local, state and federal elections and decision-making, including strengthening state anti-corruption watchdogs and introducing a federal Independent Commission Against Corruption.

Libertarian Party party platform

The party supports accountability bodies such as ombudsmen, auditors-general and the Productivity Commission, proposing a two-thirds majority of both houses of federal parliament to make or resource appointments to such bodies; it also supports protecting whistleblowers who make public interest disclosures from penalty, and a freedom-of-information regime where the onus is on government to justify withholding information.

Shooters, Fishers and Farmers Party party platform

The NSW platform states support for measures and regulations to ensure integrity and accountability of local government representatives, including around meetings and developer material, and calls for an open, transparent and accountable local government sector. It also states opposition to forced council amalgamations.

Centre Alliance party platform

Calls for a national anti-corruption commission, timely and transparent reporting of politicians' entitlements and claims, and whistleblower protection legislation including compensation for any resulting loss of income.

Jacqui Lambie Network party platform

Supports a federal anti-corruption watchdog, criticises inadequately regulated lobbyists and the "revolving door" between ministerial office and lobbying, and highlights concerns about undisclosed "dark money" in political donations.

Australia's Voice party platform

Calls to cut politicians' perks, freeze MP pay rises, and reduce taxpayer-funded travel allowances, vehicles and exit payouts for parliamentarians.

Australian Christians party platform

The party states it believes in honesty and integrity, that it does not want hypocrisy, political correctness, coercion, spin or other forms of deception from leaders, and that it supports transparent, accountable governance with freedom of speech serving as a check against corruption and abuse by government officials.

United Australia Party party platform

Party parliamentarians moved in the Senate to establish a Select Committee on a National Integrity Commission, calling for an independent federal anti-corruption body with power to scrutinise everyone from workers and employers up to politicians and party donors.

Recorded divisions on integrity & anti-corruption · 56

Every recorded vote on a bill filed under this issue, in each parliament the site holds a division record for — second and third readings, plus any amendment listed with a reason. How each member voted is on their record.

Votes are shown as the official record lists them — Hansard federally and in New South Wales; Votes and Proceedings, Minutes of the Proceedings and Hansard in Victoria; the Record of Proceedings in Queensland; the Votes and Proceedings and Minutes of Proceedings in Western Australia; the Votes and Proceedings (House of Assembly) and Hansard (Legislative Council) in South Australia; the Votes and Proceedings of both chambers in Tasmania. "Did not vote" means the member held the seat that day and is on neither list — the record says who was in the chamber, not why, so it is never an abstention. Western Australia’s record prints no pairs, so a member paired there shows as did not vote. Nothing is shown for a presiding officer who by law gives only a casting vote (the Speaker and the President in South Australia, the President in Tasmania), nor for the member presiding at a Tasmanian division, which Tasmania’s journals record. Which bills sit under which issue is an editorial choice, made bill by bill with a reason read from the second-reading speech. A bill decided by an earlier parliament (Queensland’s 2018 abortion law reform, for one) is shown with that parliament named, read from the official record of the day. For Queensland and the federal parliament “did not vote” there means the member held a seat that day, as their service is recorded; for the other earlier parliaments the record of who held a seat could not be read, so only the printed Aye, No and paired votes are shown.