by jmsthornton | May 3, 2016 | Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
ONE STEP FORWARD….. At last we have a major win. Thanks to some tireless and extensive lobbying from ART and others concerned with transparency, the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner has been re-funded. Furthermore, some special attention has...
by jmsthornton | Oct 19, 2015 | News, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
George Brandis may not have answered our letter to him concerning the defunding of the OAIC with anything other than the justification of efficiency, arguing that abolition of the OAIC is “consistent with its policy to reduce the size of government and...
by jmsthornton | Oct 7, 2015 | Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, Open Government
In an article for The Conversation, Johan Lidberg of Monash University writes of the test for Turnbull in promoting open government and a “Government 2.0” approach to freedom of information, in what to do about Abbott’s FOI hostile approach and the...
by jmsthornton | Oct 2, 2015 | Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
John McMillan, the inaugural Australian information commissioner from 2010 until this year, has written for ‘The Australian’ on the need for a permanent Freedom of Information Commissioner....
by jmsthornton | Aug 26, 2015 | Freedom of Information, Office of the Australian Information Commissioner
More on the ongoing saga of the government’s failure to maintain the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner. This article by Jane Lee was published in the Sydney Morning Herald....