dplanet News: Freedom of Information (Cth)

20 - 21 Mar 2023

Gu: Australia’s FOI backlog: 587 cases remain unresolved more than three years on

MWM: Information Commissioner aiding and abetting the enemy

10 Jan 2023

Rex Patrick viaMWM:

The dog ate my Cabinet document: Christian Porter’s vanishing rorts advice

Scott Morrison’s slippery Sports Rorts report just the fix for Bridget McKenzie;

Information Commissioner fights for the right to hide information indefinitely, que?

Half a million squandered by Information Commissioner on frustrating public’s right to know

Come on Mr Attorney-General, transparency is more than a cry for opposition benches

11 Dec 2021`

Christopher Knaus @TheGu: Information watchdog demands change after two government departments break FoI laws within a month

14 Sep 2021

Crikey: Freedom of information? Data reveals FOI legal disputes are on the rise

5 Aug 2021

Katharine Murphy viaGu: Rex Patrick wins FoI case to release national cabinet records

17 May 2021

Challenge to be heard by judge Richard White, AAT

Independent Senator Rex Patrick is challenging the notion that the national cabinet is a cabinet and entitled to cabinet confidentiality rules. If he is successful, the government will have to release deliberations, papers and outcomes from the national cabinet if requested under freedom of information.

21 Apr 2021 Morrison govt blocks release of instructions to ministers, citing cabinet confidentiality

8 Sep 2018
TSP: Agencies spend big to block FoI requests

19 Mr 2018 IA: The not-so-honourable BJ: A family matter
16 Mar 2018
The Age: FoI request denied on Vikki Campion travel records

19 July 2017 Media reform deal
ABCnews: Fox Sports' 30m budget funding brought into question

The Age: Foxtel's 30 million government handout questioned?

Gu: Rupert Murdoch empire's receives $882 million rebate from Australia

3 May 2017 FoI request

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12 Sep 2016 Labor Herald
Attorney-General George Brandis QC admitted today to personally offering $370,000 appoinment to Party Donor

9 Sep 2016
Labor Herald: Latest donations scandal ensnares Senator George Brandis QC
Mark Dreyfus QC MP:
"A new donation scandal has engulfed Australian politics — this time attorney-general Senator George Brandis QC has questions to answer about how a donor to the Queensland Liberal-National Party (LNP) who represented Brandis’ son in a criminal case in the courts, ended up with a $370,000 a year job on a Commonwealth tribunal."

10.55am The Age: George Brandis must explain $370,000 appointment of Liberal donor, say Labor