Editors --- "The Inquiry Into Governance on Norfolk Island" [2004] AdminRw 26; (2004) 56 Admin Review 75

• The Inquiry into Governance on Norfolk Island

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The Inquiry into Governance on Norfolk Island

The Joint Standing Committee on the National Capital and External Territories tabled Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Inquiry into Governance on Norfolk Island on 3 December 2003.^[1] The report contains a wide range of recommendations aimed at providing accountability mechanisms that are not currently present, among them the following:

• extension of the New South Wales Independent Commission against Corruption to cover Norfolk Island’s Legislative Assembly, Administration, and all statutory boards and government business enterprises

• extension of the jurisdiction of the Norfolk Island Administrative Review Tribunal to all decisions about pensions and benefits and all related health and medical assistance matters

• extension of the Commonwealth Ombudsman’s jurisdiction to include conduct occurring under a Norfolk Island enactment or by an authority in the Territory of Norfolk Island

• application of either the Commonwealth or the ACT Freedom of Information Act

• conferral of jurisdiction on the Commonwealth Ombudsman to deal with matters arising under freedom of information and whistleblower legislation.

The report is available at <www.aph.gov.au/house/committee/ncet/ NorfolkGov/report.htm>.

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^[1] The Latin title is translated by the Committee as ‘Who is to guard the guards themselves?’—a quote from the poet Juvenal (c. 60–130 AD).