Student FOI experience
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Cost and delay mark FOI path
10 May 2012
The path to a successful FOI request is dogged by cost and delay, as JOSEPHINE HUYNH discovered.
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Hurdles remain despite reforms
9 May 2012
A REQUEST can be too wide, go to the wrong department or go to the wrong jurisdiction. KLOE CROKER tells of her experience with three FOI requests.
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One barrier after another
8 May 2012
An ACT Government directorate gives RUSSELL AYRES a Freedom of Information run around.
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Costs used to deter ‘free’ information
8 May 2012
By BENJAMIN MUTANDADZI IN 2005, former ACT Chief Minister, Jon Stanhope said, “Freedom of Information does not mean the same as ‘free information’”, and after completing a Freedom Of Information (FOI) task for a University [...]
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The view from the provider side
4 May 2012
JOURNALISTS and others see access to information as a right but often don’t stop to think about the costs of providing it, especially if requests are cast widely. ALISON DANCE relates her experience with a request to UC about the ban on bottled water.
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One word stymies request to CASA
1 May 2012
We have had no public “complaints” about safety, was the reply ALEXANDRIA CAUGHEY got from CASA to her FOI request. But they didn’t say they they had had plenty of safety “reports”.
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FOI: open Government or formality to deter scrutiny?
23 May 2011
IS THE formality of FOI deterring people from obtaining government information? LAUREN HARRISS looks at how the Act works in practice.
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“Freedom” not FOI open slather
22 May 2011
When seeking documents about Boral’s greenhouse exemption, MATTHEW MACNEIL ran into a brick wall.
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Steep learning curve at ACT Health
16 May 2011
How long must we wait . . . for elective surgery and to have questions about waiting time for elective surgery answered. ELISE PIANEGONDA found out.
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Public takes back seat at Basin body
11 May 2011
THE public interest comes second to public servants’ need to deliberate at the Murray-Darling Basin Commission, as GRACE KEYWORTH found out.