Public duty and private interest : report of the Committee of Inquiry established by the Prime Minister on 15 February 1978, July 1979

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Australia. Committee of Inquiry Concerning Public Duty and Private Interest
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Canberra : Australian Government Publishing Service, 1979
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PUBLIC DUTY AND PRIVATE INTEREST Report of the Committee of Inquiry 1
PUBLIC DUTY AND PRIVATE INTEREST Report of the Committee of Inquiry 3
Contents 9
Foreword 13
1. The terms of reference for the Inquiry and the Committee’s approach to its task 15
2. Public duty and private interests of officeholders 21
3. General observations on the regulation of conflicts of interest 31
4. Principles for the avoidance and resolution of conflicts of interest: a Code of Conduct 43
5. Measures available for buttressing the proposed Code of Conduct 49
6. Registration of interests 57
7. Measures for Members of Parliament and their staffs 71
8. Measures for Ministers and their staffs 81
9. Measures for public servants 89
10. Measures for statutory officeholders and the staffs of statutory bodies 99
11. Measures for other categories of persons 109
12. Machinery for dealing with conflict of interest cases 117
13. Post-separation employment 129
14. Criminal law 139
15. Conclusions and recommendations 145
APPENDIX 1 Persons or organisations who made written submissions to the committee 159
APPENDIX 2 Persons who appeared before the committee to give oral evidence 163
APPENDIX 3 Recent overseas measures for the regulation of conflicts of interest 167
APPENDIX 4 Recent Australian experience at the Commonwealth level in regulating conflicts of interest 193
Appendix 5 Recent practice and developments at Australian State and Local Government level in regulating conflicts of interest 211
APPENDIX 6 Registration of interests 229
APPENDIX 7 Bibliography 243

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