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Running head: ARGUMENTATIVE ESSAY ON CORRUPTION
Argumentative essay on corruption
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Analysis and arguments on corruption:
Perry (2017) states that there are some solutions to fight against the political corruption at
Australia 1. This includes the reinforcing balances and checks like power separations, securing
political rights and civil liberties, handing preferential treatment under public service delivery and
allocating resources. Besides, the list follows the regulating of lobbying activities, ensuring fair
elections, enforcing and developing more stringent regulations of campaign finance, managing
interest conflicts along with preventing undue effects exercised to make policies2. However, the
present paper intends to show that to enhance the scenario at Australia the better solutions includes,
strengthening positions of whistleblowers, implementing more robust laws against money laundering
and bribery, generating more comprehensive rules against undue influence perceived between
private and public sectors including lobbying and political donations and establishing the body of
federal anti-corruptions. In this study the challenges in Australia and arguments from various
information analyzed are demonstrated.
Discussion on corruption challenges in Australia:
The nation of Australia has prolonged reputation of integrity and honesty at the areas of
business and government. They have been ranking constantly at the top ten nations as per the
“Transparency International Corruption Perceptions Index”. Besides, they have ranked 3rd best as per
other Transparency International Index measuring propensity of executives of business of offering
bribes. This is while performing business at other nations. The reputation has been seen to be
comforting. Nevertheless, no negative picture has been there. At Australia, corruption has been
1 Perry, P.J., 2017. Political corruption in Australia: A very wicked place?. Routledge.
2 Yap, O.F., 2017. When do citizens take costly action against government corruption? Evidence from experiments in
Australia, Singapore, and the United States. Journal of East Asian Studies, 17(1), pp.119-136.

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taking place and has been continuing to happen at every levels of community life, business, policing,
government and politics 3. Since the previous decades they have been facing imprisonment and
prosecution and fraud offences and corruption of various officials present are every government
levels, prominent national level business, Chief Magistrate, parliament members, a police
commissioner, minister of state government and state premier. Different royal commissions and
articular inquiries from previous decades investigating corruption allegations at the areas of building
and land development, foreign bribery, financial investment, revenue collection, public procurement,
job recruitment, policing and political lobbying. Apart from that the nation is seen to have the
necessity to turn to be more vigilant through implementing permanent commissions for investigating
corruptions. Importantly, the country has to be learning that corruption is issues for developing
countries like them. Moreover the inaction and complacency delivers the fertile scenario where
corruption is able to flourish.
For example the eligibility crisis of 2017-2018 Australian parliament can be considered. It
took place at the Federal states under the administration of Turnbull. Here, parliamentarians from
different parties were seen to be within that breach of Section 44 of that constitution prohibiting the
dual citizens to be sitting at parliament. Again, the 2018-19’s case of Robdebt can be considered.
Here, Centrelink has been issuing the automated type of debts that has never been incurred by
concerned individuals4. Further, the case of sports report affair of 2020 can be considered that took
at the same state of Australia5. Here, government has been seen to be providing grants for the
3 Masters, A. and Hall, K., 2019. Corruption in Australia and New Zealand. Corruption in a Global Context: Restoring
Public Trust, Integrity and Accountability among Public Leaders and Governing Institutions.
4 Forsyth, A., 2017. Law, politics and ideology: The regulatory response to trade union corruption in Australia.
UNSWLJ, 40, p.1336.
5 Smith, R.G., Oberman, T., Fuller, G. and Sergi, A., 2018. Understanding and responding to serious and organised
crime involvement in public sector corruption. Trends & Issues in Crime & Criminal Justice, (534).

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projects f sports for the various communities within marginal electorates. Most of the projects has
been seen to be of low priority and rejected previously. This has been the method of defending
various marginal electorates. Again the old cases of Grangegate during 2014 can be considered. This
took place at NSW. Here, O’Farrell got a bottle costing 3,000 dollars of the Grange Hermitage,
However, it was not declared. During 2015, there was the case of Choppegate at the Federal state.
Here, the Bishop was seen to be charting a helicopter towards a fundraiser of Liberal Party. It has
been charged more than 5,000 dollars that could have been a one hour of drive.
Understanding parliamentary integrity and public sector:
Unlike all the states of Australian that have been established to dedicate the standing for anti-
corruption companies, the Commonwealth considered multi-agency approach. This is combat the
corruption under the influencing public areas. At that system, there has been various agencies having
complementary roles. It involves the promotion of integrity around public services and then
investigate the misconduct. Further, there has been detection and investigation of corruption issues
that are related to law enforcement. For example, there are ACLEI or Australian Commission for
Law Enforcement Integrity and AFP or Australian Federal Police.
Foreign bribery:
The nation have quickly moved relatively for ratifying OECD or “Convention on Combating
Bribery of Foreign Public Officials in International Business Transactions”. They have implemented
that domestically across the legislation. Nonetheless, the nation has lagged behind various other
nations under the enforcement of convention. There has been rise in resources and priorities towards
foreign briber evaluations from 2013 appearing to be have few effect. Nonetheless, the problem has
been comprising of constant interest to Parliament6.
6 Warf, B., 2019. Corruption in Oceania. In Global Corruption from a Geographic Perspective (pp. 195-205). Springer,
Cham.