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Monday, November 09, 2009

Business on both sides of FOI battle

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Although decided under the now repealed Freedom of Information Act a recent decision by Assistant Queensland Information Commissioner Henry ...
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Friday, November 06, 2009

Yes, we should rethink everything

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Stephen Bartos of Allen Consulting , in The Canberra Times (Forget tinkering: we must rethink everything- no link available) on Tuesday writ...
Thursday, November 05, 2009

Tasmanian Parliament hiding bold step under a bushel

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Although no-one is shouting it from rooftops, Tasmania is to be the first Australian jurisdiction to bring the Parliament within the scope o...
Tuesday, November 03, 2009

Tasmanian Parliament delivers RTI package

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The Tasmanian Right to Information Act, to replace the Freedom of Information Act, and the Personal Information Protection Amendment Act hav...
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Monday, November 02, 2009

Mash-up could show lobbyists in new light

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Techo types had a great time in Canberra over the weekend at GovHack an opportunity to mash-up information made available through Data.Gov ....

"There should be a law against it"

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Paul Keating- photo James Alcock and SMH Former Prime Minister Paul Keating's spray at News Limited over an incident involving his daug...
Saturday, October 31, 2009

Senate Committee to open up Government claims of commercial in confidence

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An impasse was broken on Thursday over the Federal Government's legislation bill on telecommunications regulatory reform, previously ...
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Friday, October 30, 2009

Kessing and s70 of the Crimes Act

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Good to to see The Australian Legal Affairs extensive coverage today of new twists in the Allan Kessing case in articles by Chris Merritt. T...
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Thursday, October 29, 2009

Auditor General calls for more transparency from Queensland GOCs

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The Queensland Auditor General in Report 7/2009 on Government Owned Corporations (GOCS) tabled in Parliament this week is critical of trans...
Tuesday, October 27, 2009

Federal Court foray into public interest immunity

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( Update : A reader-thanks James- says the Full Court allowed an appeal by the State against this decision last Friday, that reasons have n...
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Monday, October 26, 2009

Business sighs of relief as reference to ALRC slips below the radar

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Then Special Minister of State John Faulkner in March 2009, releasing the Freedom of Information Reform Exposure Draft, and speaking of the ...

Breaking down the barriers to open government

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At the CeBIT Gov 2.0 Conference in Canberra last week Minister for Finance Lindsay Tanner spoke about the Gov 2.0 Task Force, and the curr...
Friday, October 23, 2009

The Oz, human rights horror stories from the UK, and some exploded myths for good measure.

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UK DPP Keir Starmer QC- read on. Chris Merritt in The Australian today returns to a familiar theme for the paper- the horrors that await us...

NSW Ombudsman sees a glimmer, but big job ahead.

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The Annual Report of the NSW Ombudsman released yesterday has plenty to say about the public service, including a concern that "(t)oo...
Thursday, October 22, 2009

Last minute rush on secrecy laws.

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Professor David Weisbrot told Senate Estimates ( Legal and Constitutional 19 October at 25) the Australian Law Reform Commission has asked...

Battlelines for public interest immunity established again in Senate Estimates

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Senate Estimates committee hearings have been underway in Canberra since Monday, with the usual myriad micro Q and (mostly, and in a fashio...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

Victorian FOI precedents support sticking to "confusion" line

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The framework for consideration of public interest issues regarding disclosure of deliberative documents under the Freedom of Information Ac...

The Law Report

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The Law Report program on Freedom of Information reforms on ABC Radio National is worth a listen ( but I would say that wouldn't I?).

Estimates questions and answers.

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With another round of Senate Estimates committee hearings underway in Canberra this week, the answers to questions taken on notice during h...
Monday, October 19, 2009

FOI on the airwaves tomorrow

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Radio National's The Law Report tomorrow (Tuesday) at 8:30 am on 576 AM is about Freedom of Information and the current state of play. I...