In November 2011, PIAC made a submission to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner in response to the discussion paper about fees and charges under the FOI Act 1982 (Cth).&n

In March 2010, PIAC made a supplementary submission to the Commonwealth Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration about the Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009 (FO

The Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009 (Cth) (the FOIR Bill) and the Information Commissioner Bill 2009 (the IC Bill)(Cth), were tabled by the Federal Government in November 2009 and

PIAC made a short submission to the NSW Law Reform Commission in response to its discussion paper Privacy and Access to Personal Information.In this submission PIAC argued that that it would be more c

PIAC welcomed the opportunity to contribute to the discussion about Government 2.0 and its implementation in Australia.

In April 2008, the NSW Ombudsman initiated an own-motion inquiry into the NSW FOI Act. As part of this inquiry, the Ombudsman released a discussion paper.

On 24 March 2009, at Australia’s Right to Know Freedom of Speech Conference, Senator John Faulkner announced the government’s proposed second tranche of reforms to the Freedom of Information Ac

The Australian Law Reform Commission Issues Paper 34: Review of Secrecy Laws (the Issues Paper) identifies four main axes across which tensions between the often competing public interests in maintain

PIAC, in its brief submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration, commends the Federal Government on implementing its commitment to remove Ministerial conclusive cer