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Wednesday, December 24, 2014

Best wishes

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"Sydney Opera House Night". Licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sydney_O...
Tuesday, December 23, 2014

Union interest in FOI sparked by government plan to abolish office of information commissioner.

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Tony Sheldon of the Transport Workers Union in an op ed in the Sydney Morning Herald yesterday mainly responded to an editorial that crit...

Human Services not alone in darting and weaving when it comes to FOI

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The report by Australian Information Commissioner Professor McMillan of an investigation into the freedom of information processing prac...
Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Privacy tort could enhance press freedom protection here, according to UK media law expert

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Wikimedia Commons Given the long concerted campaign by many media outlets led by The Australian (most recently here ) to head off a pri...

While our two-soon to be one- national information commissioners battle on working from home....

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The UK counterpart is subject to a triennial review, examining whether there is a continuing need for its functions and whether it should c...
Monday, December 15, 2014

CIA torture revelations reveal transparency and accountability differences as well

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The redacted Executive Summary pdf (525 pages) "Study of the CIA's Detention and Interrogation Program, "describes in more t...

New call for more openness from former top public servant

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Former head of Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet Terry Moran delivering the 'Weary' Dunlop lecture last week ( The Mandarin ...
Thursday, December 11, 2014

Freedom of information law overseen by one or two men working from home

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I thought my heading of the report of the Senate Estimates hearing "Government champion of open government reduced to working from hom...

Government champion of open government reduced to working from home

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And the government plans at this stage to wait to see what happens to the Freedom of Information Amendment (New Arrangements) Bill when the...
Wednesday, December 10, 2014

Chance for some probing questions about the OAIC

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With Canberra fast approaching lock down Senate Estimates, underway since October, still has unfinished business. The Senate Legal and Co...

Freedom of Information Social Drinks, Sydney

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If you were agitated, engaged or just concerned about the Federal Government's recent unsuccessful attempt to abolish the Office of A...
Tuesday, December 09, 2014

"Do you support the abolition of the Office of the Information Commissioner?"

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iTnews is conducting a poll. I wouldn't even try to influence your vote, just go ahead and do it. Here and scroll down to Polls on...
Monday, December 08, 2014

OAIC: Attorney General Brandis needs to wheel out the heart starter V2

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Sorry folks, but in trying to update this page I lost the lot and can't seem to get it back!!! If you notice it floating around the blo...
Friday, December 05, 2014

Office of information commissioner still ticking

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And (finally?) to confirm, the Senate did not consider the Freedom of Information Amendment (New Arrangements) Bill before in the early hou...
Thursday, December 04, 2014

Bill to abolish office of information commissioner in the freezer, hopefully past use by date

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Just for the sake of completeness - no Freedom of Information Amendment (New Arrangements) Bill listed in the Senate Order of Business for...
Wednesday, December 03, 2014

Government pulls bill to abolish information commissioner

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 It's over! The Freedom of Information Amendment (New Arrangements) Bill isn't listed in Senate Order of Business(pdf) for 3 Dec...
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Tuesday, December 02, 2014

Abolish the Office of Information Commissioner bill down the list; or out the door?

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Nope, the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill is not listed in The Order of Business (pdf) for the Senate 2 December, but the list is ...
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Australia gets a 'Please explain' from Open Government Partnership on missed deadline

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Australia's dilly dallying over whether to proceed or not proceed with the previous government's notice of intention of May 2013 to...
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Monday, December 01, 2014

Victoria's new government committed to change on transparency front

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With a new government in Victoria as a result of Saturday's election the collection of policies and commitments of the major parties ...
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Bill to abolish office of information commissioner up tomorrow

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The Freedom of Information Amendment (New Arrangements) Bill is listed as the first item in the Draft Legislative Programme for the Senate ...