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Wednesday, June 04, 2008

Courier Mail scorecard

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Six of 40 requests to Queensland government agencies for information about matters impacting on the community, all previously refused follow...
Tuesday, June 03, 2008

There are leaks......and leaks.

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The Australian Financial Review at the weekend reported on some of the current thinking in one government agency about dealing with Freedom...

Leaks illustrate need for policy debate and resolution

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Last week's leaks of a letter between ministerial colleagues, and the co-ordination comments from four major policy departments, on a ca...
Monday, June 02, 2008

The right to know your surgeon's track record

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Health professionals all know which surgeons to go to and which ones to avoid. Not so most members of the public. The following letter was p...
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Sunday, June 01, 2008

2020 Summit Final Report

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The Final Report of the 2020 Summit was released (without fanfare-not even a media release on the PM's website although some media repor...
Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Access to legal advice-the more things change.....

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Senate Estimates committee hearings on the Federal Budget commenced in Canberra this week, just as the Government was dealing with its first...
Tuesday, May 27, 2008

Cain's call to enable FOI laws

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Former Victorian Premier John Cain, responsible for the Freedom of Information Act introduced in that state in 1983, has added his voice to...

Call for FOI review in Tasmania

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Tasmania has a new Premier- but, mind you, it's nothing to do with "shreddergate" or other governance related recent scandals....

Houses not in order

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Picking up on the UK disclosures , does it really matter that we don't know much about payments from the public purse to members of parl...
Monday, May 26, 2008

FOI delivers parliamentary accountability-in UK

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The House of Commons has released the documents containing information about how some members spend the allowance they receive when parliame...

Good news and no news on transparency and accountability

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The good news is that Minister of State John Faulkner's announcement of the first stage in electoral law reform saw legislation introd...
Friday, May 23, 2008

Bloggers (and others), the future is yours!

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Where are we bloggers on the edge of politics going, what sort of clout might we come to exercise, is new technology changing, for better or...

NSW ADT sticks to "disclosure to the world" but policy needs rethinking

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The Appeal Panel of the NSW Administrative Decisions Tribunal in Cheney v Sydney West Area Health Service (2008) NSWADTAP 29 has decided tha...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

ALRC to recommend privacy data breach notification requirement

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We'll be hearing a lot more about this when the report is released, but Australian Law Reform Commission President David Weisbrot told ...
Wednesday, May 21, 2008

A tale of two tax stories

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The latest edition of "Open Government:a journal on Freedom of Information" includes a comparative case study by Dr Judith Bannis...
Tuesday, May 20, 2008

No stopping big brother

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The Federal Government claimed a "saving" of $1.2 billion over four years in last week's budget for ditching (last December) ...
Monday, May 19, 2008

Haneef detention-1300 documents and still counting

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Dr Haneef's legal team did not come up empty handed after seeking documents under the Freedom of Information Act held about their client...

NSW ADT rules government policy subject to objectives of FOI Act

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In the latest decision in a long running battle over access to documents about the sale of the Sydney markets, the NSW Administrative Decisi...

UK shows a lead on Freedom of Information

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The High Court dismissed an appeal by the House of Commons from a decision of the Information Tribunal requiring disclosure of payments r...
Sunday, May 18, 2008

NSW Premier not commited to FOI reform

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The following Q and A in the NSW Parliament last Thursday, saw the Premier play straight bat when asked for a commitment to act on the reco...