Archive of posts in the 'Freedom of Information' category
IF IT had not been for Australia’s practice of insisting that it did not take prisoners of war, Tanik Mahmud,...
On 11 April 2003, 20 members of the Australian Special Air Service (SAS) captured 66 Iraqi, Iranian and Syrian men...
The Australian Defence Force (ADF) systematically tried to avoid its legal obligations regarding the detention of prisoners of war in...
PIAC is interested in assisting people who want to make a Freedom of Information (FOI) application for either NSW or...
PIAC welcomed the opportunity to make a submission in response to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner’s Issues Paper,...
A new regime for access to government information comes into force later this year. A key feature of the reforms...
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 (Cth) (the FOIR Bill) and the Information Commissioner Bill 2009 (the IC...
On 24 March 2009, at Australia’s Right to Know Freedom of Speech Conference, Senator John Faulkner announced the government’s proposed...
The Australian Law Reform Commission Issues Paper 34: Review of Secrecy Laws (the Issues Paper) identifies four main axes across...