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Monday, March 31, 2008

Proposed political donation reform hardly best practice

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It's well and good that Special Minister of State John Faulkner has announced plans to introduce legislation to fix some aspects of the...
Sunday, March 30, 2008

A few names of great potential contributors lost

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Another thought on the Governance Group for the 2020 Summit. What a pity there was also no room at the inn for Andrew Podger, President of t...
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Governance group 2020 Summit participants

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The PM must have taken the entire Government PR team with him to Washington on Friday morning. How else to explain that the list of attende...
Friday, March 28, 2008

Carter Center call to action on FOI

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The Atlanta Declaration and Plan of Action for the Advancement of the Right of Access to Information has been published this week, the follo...
Wednesday, March 26, 2008

More run run, runaround

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Same old dog, still chasing tail . All you can say after reading this decision of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal is that in addi...
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When a Tribunal is not a tribunal

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The Chief Justice of the Western Australian Supreme Court has confirmed the decision of the Acting Information Commissioner that the Salari...

Our right to know about public hospitals and public schools

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Andrew Leigh of Australian National University was right a couple of weeks ago ( see our comments ) in his observations about the importance...

FOI study for radio journalist

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Congratulations to Elizabeth Jackson of ABC Radio, (as the ABC tells us - not to be confused with Liz Jackson) the recipient of a scholarsh...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Media almost missed MPs privately sponsored travel

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Most observers (including me) were surprised at developments last week that revealed it was commonplace for members of parliament to accept...
Monday, March 24, 2008

Wisdom of some advice to PM not self evident

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Robert Manne of LaTrobe University, photo abc.net.au "Dear Mr. Rudd, Ideas for a Better Australia", edited by Robert Manne is pack...
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New deadline for ALRC privacy report

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Those expecting, anticipating or dreading the release of the Australian Law Reform Commission Final Report on Privacy, have a couple of extr...
Friday, March 21, 2008

NSW FOI 20 years on

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Former Premier Nick Greiner The Sydney Morning Herald today has published my opinion piece on the Greiner government's grand ambitions ...
Tuesday, March 18, 2008

No new dawn for openness in Federal Treasury.....yet

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Government watchers sat bolt upright last Friday when the Secretary of the Treasury intervened in the public debate about the Federal Govern...
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Not just a poor week for open government in NSW

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Saturday's editorial in the Sydney Morning Herald opened with the sentence "This has been a poor week for open government" in...
Monday, March 17, 2008

Federal Ministerial staff told to reveal all

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The requirement for the Victorian Police to reveal their dodgy mates was one thing, but a 25 page Federal Government security clearance fo...

FOI delivers unhappy news on violence in schools

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With some neat planning, or just one of those coincidences, media reports in News Limited papers today provide details of the incidence of v...

WA Supreme Court to decide FOI status of Salaries Tribunal

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The Western Australian Salaries and Allowances Tribunal has appealed to the Supreme Court the finding by the Acting Information Commissioner...
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A real BOTPA after all?

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Maybe there was a privacy angle after all in the examination of athletes' Medicare records - the Minister for Sport has ordered an imme...
Friday, March 14, 2008

BOTPA strikes often

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"Because of the Privacy Act" gets a workout frequently in all sorts of contexts to explain why something can't be done, someti...

Local Government: too much public business in private

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No we are not talking about Wollongong or any of the other NSW councils much in the news recently. The Victorian Ombudsman has released a re...