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Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Privacy cause of action attracts 70 submissions, and notable absentees

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Brendan O'Connor Minister for Privacy and Freedom of Information opened the Australia and New Zealand International Association of Pri...

Efficiency dividend blunderbuss to hit accountability agencies

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Wikimedia Commons MZOPW The across the board extra 2.5% efficiency dividend for 2012-13 (on top of the existing 1.5%, an increase thi...
Tuesday, November 29, 2011

No bar to disclosure of public servant's routine work information

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Public access to information about work related matters concerning a public servant and the extent to which this raises exemption or grou...
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Monday, November 28, 2011

Walkleys for WikiLeaks and outstanding investigative journalists

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Congratulations to all winners of 2011 Walkley Awards for Excellence in Journalism. The award for Most outstanding contribution to journal...
Friday, November 25, 2011

Putting in the slipper

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 Don't laugh this is serious. The task of ensuring appropriate standards of transparency and accountability apply to the Australia...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011

National Information Policy Conference

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The National Information Policy Conference in Canberra last week drew a sell out crowd of 270 and had an interesting vibe as well as some i...

Federation as usual as shield laws don coat of different colours

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Three Liberal party state governments are taking a different line from the Commonwealth on important aspects of shield law protection f...
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Acknowledgement of FOI improvement brings out nutjobs

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There is nothing necessarily sinister or untoward in the Delimiter story reported by Renai LeMay under the headline (Commonwealth) "...
Monday, November 21, 2011

Surprise-parts of NSW incoming government brief "entirely factual"

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Followers of blue/red book disclosures will be interested to see the NSW Information Commmissioner has informed the Sydney Morning Herald , ...
Friday, November 18, 2011

AP tests the information access promise

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AP-Associated Press- has released a report after testing the freedom of information promise in over 100 countries including Australia. It a...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Fees and charges for FOI access

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The Australian and NSW information commissioners both have discussion papers out for comment in connection with current reviews of charges ...
Friday, November 11, 2011

Serco contract disclosure illustrates some FOI progress

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And some way to go as well. New Matilda has published details from the 2009 Department of Immigration and Citizenship ( DIAC ) contr...
Wednesday, November 09, 2011

Frank and candid rule in Victorian jurisprudence

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Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal Deputy President Judge Hampel in Friends of Mallacoota Inc. v Department of Planning and Commu...
Monday, November 07, 2011

Some gems as NSW Ombudsman empties the FOI in-tray

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The NSW Ombudsman has transitioned over the last year from the leading role of many years in dealing with Freedom of Information complaint...
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Sunday, November 06, 2011

President Obama will never know

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All he has to do is get to Canberra on 15 November, one day earlier than scheduled, to attend the Australian Information Commissioner's...
Friday, November 04, 2011

ACT-more open government still to come

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The Canberra Times is involved in a bit of tug of war with the ACT government over freedom of information issues, to which I made a small ...

"Woefully inadequate" search scores a cost order

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Flikr -Creative Commons The adequacy of the search by an agency for documents or information relevant to a freedom of information appli...
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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

Australian Information Commissioner first year report

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The 2010-2011 Annual Report of the Office of Australian Information Commissioner, covering activities since the office was established on ...
Monday, October 31, 2011

Parliament above transparency and accountability law

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The Sunday Herald Sun, fresh from its sister publication finding the Governor's office is a Freedom of Information no go zone, has dis...
Thursday, October 27, 2011

Information Commissioner tells Queensland Police to get in line

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The performance review report by Information Commissioner Julie Kinross on Queensland Police Service compliance with the Right to Informa...
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