Australia has been formally warned that it is not meeting its commitments to the Open Government Partnership:
The Australian government signed up to the Open Government Partnership in 2015, a 78-country multilateral initiative designed to promote open government, fight corruption and empower citizen participation in policymaking.The OGP has previously suspended Azerbaijan and designated several other countries as "inactive" for acting contrary to the OGP's goals or failing to meet commitments. If Australia does not quickly start acting, it is likely to suffer the same fate. And for a country which prides itself on being a democracy, that is simply shameful.But Australia’s efforts since have frustrated the group. It has failed to act on prior promises – including to improve donations transparency and strengthen the nation’s anti-corruption framework – and has missed the deadline to file its latest two-year action plan for 2021-23, which was due in December.
That prompted the OGP chief executive, Sanjay Pradhan, to write to the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet last week, warning that if it failed to meet the next deadline, its membership status would be reviewed.
