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February 2010 TI Australia Newsletter Articles in the February 2010 Newsletter include: * Weak UNCAC Review Mechanism adopted * Jerrold Cripps QC appointed TI Australia Chairman * Victorian Parliamentary Law Reform Committee calls for stronger ethics laws for MPs * Corporate Whistleblowers  Feb 2010 TIA Newsletter

Jerrold Cripps QC assumes the Chair of TI Australia Jerrold Cripps QC assumes the Chair of TI Australia Following the Annual Meeting, we are pleased to announce that Jerrold Cripps QC, the outgoing head of the ICAC, NSW, has been elected as the Chairman of TI Australia.

CPI 2009 Released The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index which ranks 180 countries according to how their public sector is viewed on international expert and business surveys. As the world economy begins to register a tentative recovery and some nations continue to wrestle with ongoing conflict and insecurity, it is clear that no region of the world is immune to the perils of corruption, according to Transparency International’s 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), a measure of domestic, public sector corruption released today. In a media release by TI Australia the Chief Executive of Transparency International Australia, Michael Ahrens, comments on the fact that Australia has risen to eighth spot from ninth in 2008 in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI), halting a slide since 2002 when it was considered the least corrupt country in the world.  Media Release by TI Australia  Corruption Perceptions Index 2009  CPI 2009 Regional Highlights Asia Pacific

Australia slips in OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 2009 Assessment Only four countries - Germany, Norway, Switzerland and the United States - have been serious in their efforts to enforce the OECD Anti-Bribery Convention, according to Transparency International. All the other countries in a sample of 36 were found substantially wanting in their enforcement progress, even though they had all signed the Convention. According to the report, barriers included antiquated bribery laws, political interference, and poorly funded regulators. The OECD Convention makes a commitment for signatories to ban foreign bribery by companies based on their soil. It has been signed, to date, by 38 countries. Ten countries were held to be achieving 'moderate' achievement of the Convention commitments. These included France, Japan and the United Kingdom. Countries criticised for having next to no enforcement whatsoever included Australia, Brazil, Canada, Ireland and Poland.  OECD Anti-Bribery Convention 2009 Assessment