FOI

Rex Patrick’s court victory confirms an implied obligation under the FOI Act for public servants to avoid frustrating access to documents.

Fair-and-reasonable (FAR). That’s the standard, the test for organisations handling personal information (PI) under the proposed privacy reforms. The FAR principle is also found in the ‘Objects’ section of the FOI Act at section 3(4), outlining that FOI functions “are to be be performed and exercised, as far as possible, to facilitate and promote public access to information, promptly and at the lowest reasonable cost.” And yes – fair call, I was pushing the envelope with the ‘FAR’ reference, but Commonwealth agencies may need to re-examine their approaches to what is fair-and-reasonable and what constitutes the lowest-reasonable-cost (LRC) when managing […]

Dreyfus: standalone commissioner roles mark a serious commitment by Labor to FOI and privacy, data protection, AI policy and governance.

A legal case over the release of robodebt cabinet documents has reached the Federal Court, with a case to be heard on Friday in Victoria.

Brendan Murphy says upholding important principles of democracy left the door open for conspiracy theorists to take things to the Nth degree.

Victoria’s info commissioner says the inquiry is a chance to make Freedom of Information legislation fit for purpose in the digital age.