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2006 Events

Political Finance Workshop 25 February 2006

Australian and international political finance experts, electoral commissioners, former auditors-general and political party representatives gathered at the Australian National University to workshop the Draft Democratic Audit Report prepared by Joo-Cheong Tham and Sally Young on Saturday, February 25 2006. The Tham/Young Report is still a working draft that has benefited from the workshop process and is set to be a landmark publication on political finance in Australia.

Go to the political finance papers

Read about the workshop in The Canberra Times.

Read the program (PDF)

We snapped some of the participants, below.

	All participants - speakers and others. Photographer: Darren Boyd. Open a full size version (200kb) of this picture with each person identified, in new window
	Electoral Commissioners Dr Helena Catt (New Zealand, back to camera) and Steve Tully (Victoria, right) with Norm Kelly (ANU, left)
	Left to right: overseas experts Prof Keith Ewing (Kings College London, Prof Adam Shoemaker (Dean Arts, ANU), Hadar Gumay (Centre for Electoral reform, Jakarta) and Andrew Geddis (University of Otago, currently at University of Victoria, British Columbia, back to camera)
	Andrew Fraser (Canberra Times) and Dr Sarah Miskin (Parliamentary Library)
	Former Auditors-General Tony Harris (New South Wales) and Pat Barrett (Commonwealth) share a joke. Back to camera is Jane Ellis (Transparency International Australia)
	Dr Peter van Onselen (Edith Cowan University) with Dr Peter Phelps, Chief of Staff to the Special Minister of State