by jmsthornton | May 5, 2024 | News, Victoria, Victorian Government Integrity System Reform
On Thursday 2nd May, the Victorian Legislative Council passed an amendment to the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024, which had previously included wording that abolished the Public Records Advisory Council. This vote...
by jmsthornton | Apr 16, 2024 | News, Public Trust
Our letter to the Premier of Victoria, Jacinta Allen: Dear Premier The Accountability Round Table is concerned by recent reports that the Estate Agents, Residential Tenancies and Other Acts Amendment (Funding) Bill 2024 would abolish the Public Records Advisory...
by jmsthornton | Apr 12, 2024 | News
Whether the source of information is official or unofficial, if it is legitimate information on government decision-making or government behaviour in practice, and it is not a matter to which the same exceptions as apply for FOI requests, it should be in the public...
by jmsthornton | Mar 14, 2024 | Freedom of Information, News
Urgent reforms needed to FOI The Accountability Roundtable is urging greater reforms to Australia’s freedom of information regime. It is one of 16 organisations and individuals committed to greater transparency that signed an open letter to the Attorney-General,...
by jmsthornton | Feb 28, 2024 | ART policy, Freedom of Information
THE PROBLEM A powerful and independent freedom of information scheme must be a central feature of a functional democracy, an essential step toward enhancing transparency and accountability. The existing basis of FOI legislation laid down in the 1980s is sound – yet...