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Thursday, January 29, 2015

Tony Fitzgerald's prescription for good government

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On ABC 7.30 last night Tony Fitzgerald who headed the inquiry into corruption in Queensland 25 years ago said the LNP Newman government r...
Wednesday, January 28, 2015

OAIC continues to operate while bill to scrap it awaits the return of the Senate.

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The Office of Australian Information Commissioner wouldn't be in business these days if the government had its way in the Senate late ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

Justinian's take on AG's plan to take down OAIC

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Richard Ackland in Justinian - News Desk Special Monday 19 January 2015. (Republished with permission.) FOI still wagging The end of la...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Amid the stench of political donations, a whiff of reform

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 Well in some places at least. You may have missed the final report delivered to NSW Premier Baird on 24 December on options for long te...
Friday, January 09, 2015

Timely reminder:“Democracy dies behind closed doors.”

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David Cole, the Honorable George J. Mitchell Professor in Law and Public Policy at Georgetown University Law Center writing in The New York...
Friday, January 02, 2015

Annual release of cabinet records - our ancient history not all fit for public consumption

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The 1988-1989 cabinet records released on 1 January provide plenty of interest for the buffs and interesting pickings for the mainstream...
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...