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Friday, August 28, 2015

Considering options while confirming plan to abolish Information Commissioner?

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In a Media Release last Friday Attorney General Brandis said "Timothy Pilgrim was appointed acting Australian Information Commissi...

Public sector corruption survey

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Transparency International Australia (TIA) is supporting the TIA Queensland Regional Committee in conducting a pilot Survey in relation to...

"We're the government and we're here to protect your privacy"

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Not...  as two experts outline years of failure to pay attention to privacy protection. Dr Roger Clarke in a detailed working paper ex...
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Monday, August 24, 2015

Brandis considering options for future of Australian Information Commissioner

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It's the first indication in 15 months that a rethink of sorts is underway about plans to abolish the Office of Australian Information ...
Friday, August 21, 2015

Certifying entitlement claims too much for busy parliamentarians particularly Bob Katter

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ABC picks up on Senator Conroy and Bob Katter not certifying Department of Finance entitlement expenditure for years-noted here four weeks...
Thursday, August 20, 2015

Deep breaths needed instead of talk about binning Big Tobacco access rights

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The Nick Baker - Richard McKenzie piece in Fairfax Media on the two pronged attempt to utilise freedom of information laws to obtain data ...
Monday, August 17, 2015

International Commission of Jurists remind that Parliament not Executive fiat decides the fate of OAIC

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Bernard Keane in Crikey today on the FOI rollback campaign that includes the unsuccessful push to legislate to abolish the Office of Aust...
Wednesday, August 12, 2015

Open Government Partnership: Australia on notice to follow through on membership

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Toby McIntosh on Freedominfo.org in Washington DC did some sleuthing to identify the unnamed country referred to in the Open Government Ste...
Monday, August 10, 2015

Open season on information commissioners?

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Victoria's plan to enhance FOI watchdog powers stands in sharp contrast to the Federal Government's tenacity in clinging to its pl...
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Thursday, August 06, 2015

Acting Australian Information Commissioner on OAIC performance:'managing effectively within available resources.'

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The post Impact of cutbacks at OAIC attracted a response from Acting Australian Information Commissioner Timothy Pilgrim who in a letter p...
Tuesday, August 04, 2015

Impact of cutbacks at OAIC: Open and Shut interested in your story

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With the functions of the three commissioners that make up the Office of Australian Information Commissioner now in the hands of a single a...
Sunday, August 02, 2015

Deja vu: Government announces comprehensive review of parliamentary entitlements

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Six years ago the then government announced a 'root and branch review' of parliamentary entitlements following critical findings by...
Friday, July 31, 2015

Australia going backwards on protection of privacy and information access

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At a time when threats to privacy abound including from a federal government that lays claim to a watchdog role to safeguard our right to p...
Wednesday, July 29, 2015

ANZSOG Conference 'Opening Government' a real steal

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Registration closes Friday for The Australian New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) Conference 2015 in Melbourne next month: Openin...
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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Challenge to refusal to release incoming government brief will see "Frank and Candid" put to the test

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In a Freedom of Information review application in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal today, Shadow Attorney General Mark Dreyfus QC challe...
Sunday, July 26, 2015

ALP National Conference 2015: Open and Accountable Government

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Extracts below from the Draft National Policy (Chapter 10 Strong Democracy and Effective Government) that went to the 2015 National Con...
Friday, July 24, 2015

Australian Information commissioners: names should be put to faceless public servants

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Only Silence- Wikimedia Commons Decisions by the Australian information commissioners should bring to a halt the widespread agency pra...
Tuesday, July 21, 2015

Parliamentarians entitlements-calls for "root and branch review" take us back to the future

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Lots of talk about a"root and branch" review of parliamentarians' entitlements, including on Q&A last night with former...
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Friday, July 17, 2015

Parliamentarians perks- accountability framework full of holes

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Adam Gartrell in Fairfax Media has shown what can result from digging into the report on expenditure against entitlements by Parliamentar...