Exclusive: Correspondence shows Leo Hardiman expressed frustrations to agency head Angelene Falk In the weeks before his shock resignation, Australia’s freedom of information commissioner complained ...

A test of democracy: We need to clearly define where privacy rights end and the public’s right to information begins in order to have a truly effective FOI law. — 123rf WHEN Wathshlah Naidu talks ...

Attorney general says online regulator received nearly 600 freedom of information requests in a short period of time from an ‘automated generator’ and ‘this is why the system is broken’ Follow our ...

Victoria's information commissioner says the state's records system needs a dramatic overhaul to address delays. The state experienced a record number of FOI requests in the last financial year, ...

The passage of the Freedom of Information bill is like a missing puzzle piece in the Aquino administration’s fight against corruption MANILA, Philippines – The non-passage of the Freedom of ...

The Albanese government’s new plan to weaken freedom of information laws and charge journalists to access hidden documents is a disaster for public interest journalism, but a godsend for incompetent ...

Frivolous? Waste of time? Or vital information for the public? Creative Commons, CC BY-SA A Freedom of Information request lodged on a quiet news day by a journalist has revealed that more than 800 ...

Public authorities, including government departments, are consistently failing to answer Freedom of Information requests within the legal time limit, new research by openDemocracy has revealed. We ...

MANILA, Philippines — Congress has entertained Freedom of Information bills for decades only to let them languish at the committee level. In the 20th Congress, seven minority lawmakers filed the first ...

Secure messaging services like WhatsApp often feature in the news in the context of their potential use by terrorists. But paradoxically they are now used increasingly by Commonwealth government ...

MANILA, Philippines — Sen. Robinhood Padilla said on Monday that he would call on Malacañang to include the passage of the Freedom of Information (FOI) bill as part of the priority measure that it ...

The Philippines is now within reach of a Freedom of Information (FOI) law, a measure that has languished in Congress for almost four decades. The House of Representatives has approved the bill on ...