Canberra two-step

In this review of recent Federal developments in Club Troppo (and this week's Public Sector Informant in The Canberra Times), former senior public servant Stephen Bartos, now with the Allen Consulting Group, is on the money about the good move to abolish conclusive certificates under the Freedom of Information Act; disappointment at what we are seeing in practice in secrecy in the Haneef inquiry; and failure so far to follow outstanding models from elsewhere in the publication of important information about performance and other aspects of government.