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Freedom of information

July 2024

  • A Bonza 737 MAX aircraft in Melbourne

    Labor ignored Bonza’s plea for help, as questions linger over what transport officials knew and when

    Exclusive: Documents reveal what transport minister Catherine King was advised to say in public as budget Australian airline headed for collapse

June 2024

  • Tory Shepherd

    The weekly beast
    News Corp’s quiet apology after outrage over use of Indigenous children’s images

    Tory Shepherd
    Apology from Sky News was published at 7pm on Friday – a time when very few would see it, complainants say. Plus: speculation over Paul Barry’s replacement
  • Centrelink signage outside a branch

    IT expert wins long-running freedom of information court battle over robodebt documents

    Justin Warren first lodged request with the then Department of Human Services in January 2017
  • Australian Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus listens to Australian Federal Police Commissioner Reece Kershaw and ASIO director-general Mike Burgess address the National Press Club in Canberra, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AAP Image/Lukas Coch) NO ARCHIVING

    Labor fights for the right to shred documents if it loses office

    Attorney general Mark Dreyfus is appealing an FOI court ruling that said the practice could be criminal and must stop

May 2024

  • The high-security main gate of the Melbourne immigration detention centre in Broadmeadows

    Flawed immigration detention risk assessment tool can’t be upgraded as ABF data ‘riddled with errors’

    Exclusive: One detainee recorded as being involved in ‘over 3,000 incidents’ in a year – an ‘incredibly unfeasible’ scenario, FOI documents say

April 2024

  • An AGL power bill

    AGL’s use of Centrepay not audited for two years despite allegations it wrongly took $700,000 from vulnerable Australians

  • Bridget McKenzie

    Bridget McKenzie’s office wanted ‘sports rorts’ funding tripled to pay for target and marginal seat priorities

March 2024

  • Independent Senator Rex Patrick at a press conference at Parliament House in Canberra, Monday, November 30, 2020. (AAP Image/Mick Tsikas) NO ARCHIVING

    Australian FoI loophole to deny access to documents closed in ‘transformative’ ruling

  • Clare O’Neil

    Clare O’Neil claims she relied on verbal briefings only for prediction of high court immigration detention win

February 2024

  • Jacinta Price, Alex Antic and Claire Chandler against receipt and Whitestone Strategic logo

    Secretive firm behind voice no campaign billed taxpayers almost $135,000 via Coalition MPs, documents show

    Exclusive: Whitestone Strategic, which has close ties to rightwing lobby group Advance, was paid to craft messaging on topics such as vaccine mandates and renewable energy

December 2023

  • Sportsbet signage at an AFL match

    Total ban on gambling ads ‘the right thing to do’, Labor MPs argue

    Exclusive: ‘We could forever redefine the term “Murphy’s law”,’ one politician says in tribute to late colleague Peta Murphy
  • Paul Karp

    The Agenda
    Anthony Albanese denounced Scott Morrison’s secrecy – but now he’s perpetuating it

    Paul Karp
    The government continues to refuse freedom-of-information access to minutes of a committee established by the Coalition. When will it live up to its rhetoric on transparency?
  • The main entrance to Parliament House, Canberra

    Australia’s freedom of information system ‘dysfunctional and broken’, inquiry finds

    Senate panel’s Labor members disagree with report, saying opposition-led probe failed to acknowledge Coalition’s ‘longstanding attempts to weaken’ FoI laws

October 2023

  • Australian information commissioner Angelene Falk at a Senate estimates hearing in 2018

    Australia’s information commissioner denies leadership ‘gaslighted’ former FoI chief

    Angelene Falk responds to Leo Hardiman’s extraordinary accusations to a Senate inquiry which he claimed led to his resignation

September 2023

  • Rex Patrick

    Rex Patrick in renewed legal fight over Australia’s ‘broken’ freedom of information system

    Former senator appeals federal court ruling that information watchdog’s lengthy delays were not unreasonable as it was bound by funding

August 2023

  • Protesters heckle incoming RBA governor Michele Bullock as she spoke at the Sir Leslie Melville public lecture at ANU in Canberra on Tuesday.

    Australia news live
    Protesters interrupt ANU event – as it happened

  • Australia's Parliament House with blue sky background

    Former information commissioner claims in Senate inquiry he was ‘manhandled’ and ‘gaslighted’ by leadership

July 2023

  • An RAAF Dassault Falcon 7X

    Defence department ‘stonewalled’ FoI requests on politicians’ use of RAAF VIP jet fleet, says Greens

  • A person obscured by a blur in a health facility corridor

    Victoria’s mental health watchdog criticised after fighting release of secret recommendations

June 2023

  • Queensland Health’s acting director-general Shaun Drummond is seen leaving the Commission of Inquiry into Forensic DNA Testing in Queensland at the Brisbane Magistrates Court in Brisbane, Tuesday, October 4, 2022. (AAP Image/Darren England) NO ARCHIVING

    Queensland health boss resigns amid criticism of proposed whistleblower law change

    Shaun Drummond had distanced himself from suggestions people who provide journalists with ‘inappropriate’ information should be penalised
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