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Ensuring food and nutrition security — what is needed in a post-covid world?
COVID-19 significally increased the risk of food insecurity for populations around the globe. Incomes were reduced, supply chains were disrupted and acute hunger rose. While vaccinations are helping to bring the pandemic to a foreseeable end, the challenge of ensuring food and nutrition security continues. For many, incomes and supply chains remain tenuous while extreme weather events compound the difficulty of maintaining resilient food systems. In this webinar, we will discuss the prospects for addressing this wicked challenge moving forward while considering rural and urban opportunities in developing and developed countries alike.
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Hidden Money: Shining light on political finance for the next federal election
The gaps in Commonwealth disclosure of political donations mean that the source of millions of dollars of party finance is hidden from public view. Transparency is key to unpicking the complex webs of undue influence and creating a fair and equal democracy. The Centre for Public Integrity presented on their research into hidden money in politics and what reforms are needed to fix it.
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Can Ethical Certification Prevent Food Fraud?
By Jade Lindley, Hannah Bongiovanni, and Dominique Eastwood.
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Diminishing Public Trust? Pushback against ICAC?
Recent amendments to the Independent Commissioner against Corruption Act in South ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ have narrowed definitions of misconduct, maladministration and corruption reducing the ICAC’s powers. This pushback is examined in this webinar. Had the ICAC over-reached? Did it need its wings clipped? Or might something else have been in play?
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Corruption, Conflict of Interest, and Whistleblowing in Public Administration
°Õ³ó±ðÌý·É±ð²ú¾±²Ô²¹°ùÌýCorruption, Conflict of Interest, and Whistleblowing in Public Administration, organized jointly by the International Anti-Corruption Academy, the Stretton Institute, and the Centre for the Study of Corruption at the ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ of Sussex, explores the types of corruption that exist in public administration and examines intervention strategies.  It focuses on integrity breaches, conflict of interest and whistleblowing, and illustrates with corruption in a specific sector.Â
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Online Symposium Foreign Aid Policy: Japan - ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ cooperation in a COVID world
The Stretton Institute with financial support from the Japan Foundation Sydney office, and in collaboration with the JICA Ogata Sadako Institute for Peace and Development in Tokyo held a half-day online symposium on Foreign Aid Policy: Japan-ÐÓ°ÉÖ±²¥ Cooperation in a COVID World on 15 July 2021.Â
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A failure of artificial intelligence – or bureaucratic bastardry?
By Professor Adam Graycar and Dr Adam Masters.
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