Two recent examples show how Australia’s FOI laws and administration are used to frustrate rather than advance the objective of informing the public, writes Binoy Kampmark.
Freedom of Information laws were designed to shed a light upon the murky, opaque functions of government decision-making. As the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (Cth) acknowledges, in passing the act parliament intended “to increase recognition that information held by the government is to be managed for public purposes, and as a national resource.
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