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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Food hygiene issues still running

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There has been quite a bit of media and talk back interest in the food hygiene story. I have made some comments in interviews today about ...
Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Food hygiene breakthrough - lights on in Blacktown

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The Blacktown Advocate has published this story " Hygiene Offenders " based on documents released under Freedom of Information by...

Guantanamo - justice for some

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Regular readers may recall that while I was in Washington DC in January, I blogged several items about the senior Pentagon official Charles ...
Monday, February 26, 2007

What's this - an FOI user career path?

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A couple of notable "people moves" in Freedom of Information land. I hear that Michael McKinnon , FOI Editor at the Australian an...

As we said last year "Let the sun shine in"

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Media interest in, and support for better FOI laws is evidenced in the US through active participation in advocacy and public education abo...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Task force warns: be careful with what goes on access card

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Plenty of media coverage in the last few days about the latest discussion paper issued by the Federal Government's Consumer and Privac...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Privacy overboard

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Not only did Sydney put on a party for the Queen Mary 2 and Queen Elizabeth 2 on the Harbour yesterday, but the city suffered new year'...

Small dose of FOI humble pie

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In my post " Government contracts nothings straight forward " on Thursday 15 February , I was dead wrong when I said that the new...
Monday, February 19, 2007

Spin and the public right to know

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An address in early February by the Secretary of the Federal Treasury, Ken Henry, titled "Political Awareness", received some pub...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

NSW political leaders outshine Kings of Comedy

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The NSW election campaign is off and running with the leaders debate on ABC's Lateline on Friday and the launch of the Australian Labo...
Friday, February 16, 2007

FOI delivers: Iraq invasion plan 'delusional'

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We are trying to break the habit of posting media reports based on documents released under Freedom of Information but this is a really imp...
Thursday, February 15, 2007

Government contract disclosures - nothings straightforward

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The Age report yesterday " Brumby wins battle to keep EastLink costs secret "concerned a Victorian Court of Appeal decision in...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

NZ privacy pay out for police

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According to this report " Police lose landmark job privacy case ", New Zealand Police have had an award of $12,500 in damages mad...
Monday, February 12, 2007

Media battle over FOI fee reduction, even in US

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We may have overstated how simple and straightforward the US Federal Freedom of Information law is when it comes to fee waiver or reduction...
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Melbourne public meeting on Access Card

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Well, as we were saying...... If you're in Melbourne or can be there on 22 February you might be interested in this public meeting about...
Friday, February 09, 2007

National Access Card privacy concerns

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There are just a few signs that concern about the Federal Government's National Access Card is on the rise. There was plenty of comment ...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

FOI officer- courage in the face of adversity

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The series of articles in Thursday's Sydney Morning Herald about Macquarie University, were based on 2500 pages of documents released ...

Media shouldn't cop this lying down

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The Federal Administrative Appeals Tribunal decision rejecting the Sydney Morning Herald's request for a public interest rebate on char...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2007

National Access Card privacy issues given new nod

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The Federal Minister for Human Services' media release about the National Access Card legislation introduced today (see item below) has ...

FOI delivers - how Federal MPs spent $40million on stuff for your mail box

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If you have been on receiving end of leaflets and letters from your Federal Member of Parliament, you are not alone. This report " How ...