In Western Australia, as the annual reporting season gets underway, Keryn McKinnon in her column "Reporting seasons exposes a secretive Government" says that the Premier has directed agencies to not include information about Freedom of Information applications (and performance measures) on the basis that 'people don't read these details anyway'.
McKinnon says that less information from government agencies is hardly in line with current expecations of greater transparency.
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