An update from Integrity Fiji discusses the challenges lack of good data presents to their anti-corruption work. It highlights their recent accomplishments in the face of the challenges.

Julie Read has quietly left the Serious Fraud Office (SFO) after nine years at the helm. TINZ wishes to acknowledge the major contribution she made to shedding light on corruption in New Zealand and on showing how to effectively prosecute perpetrators.

Social media platforms fail to act on 89% of anti-Muslim and Islamaphobia hate content. Social media simillarly fail on climate change and COVID-19 misinformation, and on antisemitism, racist, and misogynistic content. Join the Global Summit to Address Online Harms and Misinformation conversation with legislators, academics, regulators and activists on building a better, safer and fairer Internet.

Given the dominance of COVID-19 in government activity over the last two years, it is clear that procurement for covid response and recovery has been conducted almost entirely outside of public scrutiny.

The public’s trust in Intelligence is precarious. Often collection of information is criticised for potential invasion of privacy but Intelligence done well supports good policy development and successful operational activity. Where this occurs, the role of intelligence goes unnoticed. Competence of intelligence is also indicated in the absence of failure.

Transparency International Australia is launching a new tool to identify the loopholes that enable corruption to thrive in the infrastructure sector in the Asia-Pacific region.

The Accountable Mining Programme, led by Transparency International Australia, has just started an exciting new project on business integrity.

Money Laundering and Corruption Report. Research published by Transparency International New Zealand investigates corruption and money laundering within Pacific Island Countries (PICs). It highlights the linkage between the two concluding that preventive and investigative systems are insufficient and not operating effectively.