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Monday, October 12, 2009

Hyperbole and the human rights debate

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The Sydney Morning Herald in its editorial was sceptical about actions recommended in the Brennan Report to protect human rights. But the ...
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Friday, October 09, 2009

Australians say human rights need better protection.

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The Brennan Committee report to the Federal Government on the National Human Rights Consultation makes 31 Recommendations , 16 concerning a...
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Thursday, October 08, 2009

Best public service should lead on open government as well

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In the weeks since the Prime Minister set the Australian Public Service what he said was the "entirely reasonable and achievable"...
Wednesday, October 07, 2009

Some sunshine in the Queensland childcare industry

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The Courier Mail following a series of stories highlighting unsuccessful freedom of information applications seeking to identify child care...

Taxi audit hailed down

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www.abc.net.au The Sydney Morning Herald has been on the job for several weeks about the NSW taxi industry, and today reports on a 2007 aud...
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Monday, October 05, 2009

Public broadcasters and the right to know-about them

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In a recent post I commented on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation's various views about it's current exclusion from the Freed...

"People,not laws block freedom of information"

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Matthew Moore in the Sydney Morning Herald gives the recent NSW Deputy Ombudsman's report on the Board of Studies a going over, citing ...
Friday, October 02, 2009

NSW Information Commissioner hits the web

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Judge Ken Taylor AM RFD Acting NSW Information Commissioner The Office of NSW Information Commissioner is up on the web as of today, with d...

More disclosure might lead to less questions about public servant travel

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Damien Brown in The Mercury reports that questions in State Parliament in Hobart yesterday about travel expenses of Health Secretary David ...

The Oz splashes out on whistleblower protection

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www.cpsu.org Chris Merritt in The Australian gives whistleblower protection a solid run today, at least those aspects regarding disclosure t...
Thursday, October 01, 2009

Not much Gov 2.0 detail in Tasmania's RTI Exposure Draft

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Submissions closed today on the Tasmanian Exposure Draft Right to Information Bill 2009 , to replace the Freedom of Information Act, and th...
Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Talking up RTI in Queensland

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Speeches this week by David Solomon and Queensland Information Commissioner Julie Kinross on separate occasions in Brisbane are both of i...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Integity and accountability paper sparks ideas

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There were 114 submissions in response to the Queensland Green paper on Integrity and Accountability with many urging parliamentary reform,...
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Monday, September 28, 2009

Transparency and school performance

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Associate Professor Tony Taylor of Monash University in Crikey today on why we need more accessible information about school performance, a...

Something's gotta give.

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In a comment on a post last week, an anonymous reader who claims to have worked in media relations in the Keating, Howard and Rudd governme...
Sunday, September 27, 2009

Queensland marks Right to Know Day

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Tomorrow 28 September is International Right to Know Day in some parts of the world, and usually passes largely unnoticed in this neck of t...
Friday, September 25, 2009

Queensland whistleblower reform

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Haven't seen Dr AJ Brown's report but Chris Merritt's story in The Australian about what's on the table in Queensland for r...
Thursday, September 24, 2009

"Interesting' Ombudsman report-a serious understatement.

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Following on from the previous post , and thanks to James King for the comment and lead, those seriously interested in Freedom of Informati...

NSW Board of Studies fails FOI test

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The NSW Ombudsman's report of an investigation into the Board of Studies and scaled exam results sounds interesting, but given confident...
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Struggling with "communicative abundance" and "monitory democracy"?

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Professor Jonathon Keane of the University of Westminster, an Adelaide boy still at heart, has been in Australia speaking about his almost 1...
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