NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal

The ACT’s first independent public sector integrity commissioner will be retired judge and Australian Electoral Commission chair Dennis Cowdroy.

New South Wales government agencies are getting quicker and more helpful in responding to requests for information from the public, but overall the state public service is becoming more opaque.

The NSW Medical Council has unwittingly breached privacy legislation by uploading a document with a person’s name redacted, but still buried in metadata. It’s a lesson for all public agencies.