FOI

People who spent time in institutional or foster care as children are entitled to access the relevant historical records, and a new guide from the

In case anyone was wondering, comments from most public servants on the workplace social networking app Yammer will typically be exempt from release under the federal Freedom of Information Act.

Constitutional law professor Anne Twomey thinks the National Archives is nearly useless for serious academic and historical research, partly because it is “starved of funding”

The Australian Information Commissioner gave a keynote address to federal FOI officers at a meeting of the Information Contact Officers Network (ICON) this week. For

This is an edited extract from the 2018 Solomon Lecture, delivered by Professor Ken Smith, ANZSOG Dean and CEO, in Brisbane on Monday at the Office of the Information Commissioner Queensland to mark International Right to Information Day (September 28).

If it was any other group staking out the concourse of Sydney’s Central Station with pamphlets and polished messages about the public having a “right to know” what the government is doing on their behalf, they’d be mistaken for a protest group.

The Australian Public Service Commission has some prickly questions to answer about why it greyed out large swathes of documents it released to Senator Jenny

Journalists only made 3% of requests for New South Wales government information in the last financial year, while six times as many came from private sector companies.

Timothy Pilgrim has announced his resignation as privacy and freedom-of-information commissioner, effective March 24, two days out from the beginning of the mandatory data breach notification scheme.

This is an edited extract of a speech by the inaugural Victorian information commissioner, Sven Bluemmel, at a conference on privacy and freedom of information hosted by the Leo Cussen Centre for Law on November 30, 2017.

Not all freedom of information laws are created equal, which makes comparing the transparency of different systems across Australia rather difficult. States that proactively publish more information might look more secretive on paper.

The Victorian government has appointed two deputies to its newly established Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner, which combines responsibilities for privacy and access to state government

The Northern Territory’s public servants don’t receive that many applications for the release of government information, but when they do, they reject more than their

Victoria has poached Western Australia’s information commissioner, but he gets to keep the same job title in a newly established office that opens its doors in Melbourne tomorrow with combined responsibility for privacy protection and public access to government information.