‘Labor’s lost interest in transparency’: Another year of a broken FOI scheme
Some gains but many losses in freedom of information requests from Labor as calls for transparency become words used only in opposition.
When looking at the state of play in freedom of information (FOI) laws in Australia, a scene from season two of Utopia is evergreen. Rhonda (Kitty Flanagan) presents Nat (Celia Pacquola) with an FOI request, and lays down the law on how to deal with it:
You simply reply, ‘We reject this application on the following grounds: firstly, the number of documents requested is far too voluminous.
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