Australians rank political parties and the media as the most corrupt institutions in the country, according to the latest Global Corruption Barometer. The Barometer, by the corruption watchdog Transparency International, surveyed more than 100,000 people worldwide about their perceptions of, experiences with, and responses to corruption in their daily life. “Our results show around the world that people see corruption when there is corruption,” Dr Robin Hodess, group director of advocacy and research for Transparency International told Guardian Australia. When a survey asked how serious a problem respondents believed corruption was in their own country, the global average was 4.1 on a scale of one to five, where one means “not a problem at all” and five is “a very serious problem”. Australia’s aggregate was 3.6, which put it in the top 16 of the 107 nations surveyed. More than half of Australians surveyed said corruption had increased over the last two years. Around the same proportion – 58% – ranked political parties and the media as guilty of being corrupt or “extremely corrupt”, a higher percentage than for all other institutions the survey asked about. The key institutions respondents were asked to choose from were: political parties, police, judiciary, public officials or civil servants, parliament or legislature, medical and health services, media, religious bodies, and business or private sector, education systems, the military, and NGOs. On a scale of one to five, five being “extremely corrupt”, the media and political parties scored 3.6 among Australians, up 0.3 on the last survey in 2010/11. guardian.co.uk/world/2013/jul/09/australians-media-politics-most-corrupt
Posted on: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 08:31:25 +0000
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