Missing and Messy Data: improving government transparency regarding corporate lobbying (2022-23)

• Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

  Project Leader

Project Details

This project aims to improve the quality of lobbying transparency in Australia so that harmful industry practices can be better monitored and ultimately addressed. The project has three workstreams: 1) To review and synthesise frameworks for evaluating the transparency and openness of government lobbying data; 2) To map out the specific ways that national governments provide data about lobbying internationally; and 3) To develop a set of evidenced-based recommendations to improve the transparency and openness of Australian government lobbying data.

Researchers

Dr Jennifer Lacy-Nichols

Katherine Cullerton (UQ)

Eric Crosbie (U Nevada, Reno)

Hadeeyeh Baradar

Funding

The University of Melbourne Early Career Researcher Grant (2023)