Footnotes
Chapter 2 - Proposed reforms to freedom of information laws
[1] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 1.
[2] FOI Bill,
Schedule 1, section 3.
[3] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 5.
[4] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, paragraph 8(2)(g).
[5] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, subsection 8C(1).
[6] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 6.
[7] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 7.
[8] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, section 8E.
[9] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, section 8F.
[10] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, section 8B.
[11] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, paragraph 8D(2)(a).
[12] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, paragraph 8D(2)(b).
[13] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, section 8D(3).
[14] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 6.
[15] FOI Bill,
Schedule 2, subsection 8(1).
[16] FOI Bill,
Schedule 3, subsections 11C(4) and (5).
[17] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 15.
[18] Including
proposed section 51DA; paragraphs 54L(2)(a) and 54M(2)(a)
[19] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 27.
[20] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 34.
[21] FOI Bill
section 55R(5).
[22] FOI Bill,
section 55U.
[23] FOI Bill, sections
55V and 55W respectively.
[24] FOI Bill,
section 55Y.
[25] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 32.
[26] FOI Bill,
section 57A.
[27] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 40.
[28] FOI Bill,
section 74
[29] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 46.
[30] Professor
John McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5
February 2010, p. 2.
[31] ALRC and
ARC, Open government: a review of the federal Freedom of Information Act
1982, ALRC Report 77, 1995, paragraph 7.18.
[32] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 44.
[33] FOI Bill,
section 89M.
[34] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 56.
[35] Explanatory
Memorandum, p. 3.
[36] Explanatory
Memorandum, FOI Bill, p. 52.
[37] Explanatory
Memorandum, IC Bill, p. 1.
[38] IC Bill,
clause 14.
[39] Explanatory
Memorandum, IC Bills p. 2.
Chapter 3 - Committee's consideration of terms of reference
[1] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 1.
[2] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 15.
[3] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 7.
[4] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
4.
[5] Mr Jack Herman,
Executive Secretary, Australian Press Council, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 20.
[6] Professor
Rosalind Croucher, President, Australian Law Reform Commission, Proof
Committee Hansard. 15 February 2010, p. 23.
[7] See for
example Name Withheld, Submission 1; Ms Karen Kline, Submission 5;
Mr Andrew Murray, Submission 4; and Associate Professor Anne Twomey, Submission
2.
[8] Mr Andrew Murray,
Submission 4, p. 1.
[9] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 9.
[10] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 8.
[11] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 1.
[12] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 1.
[13] Mr Jack
Herman, Executive Secretary, Australian Press Council, Proof Committee
Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 22.
[14] Professor
Rosalind Croucher, President, ALRC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 23.
[15] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 2.
[16] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 2.
[17] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 2.
[18] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p 8.
[19] Professor
John McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5
February 2010, p. 3.
[20] Ms Elizabeth
Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010 p. 31.
[21] Ms Elizabeth
Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, pp 33-34.
[22] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 2.
[23] ALRC, Submission
9, p. 2.
[24] ALRC and
ARC, Open government: a review of the federal Freedom of Information Act
1982, ALRC Report 77, 1995.
[25] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 2.
[26] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 4.
[27] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 4.
[28] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 51 February 2010, p. 15.
[29] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 2.
[30] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 2.
[31] Telstra, Submission
10, p. 3.
[32] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 5.
[33] Telstra, Submission
10, p. 3.
[34] Law Council
of Australia, Submission 12, p. 4.
[35] Mr Mark Robinson,
Law Council of Australia, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010,
p. 15.
[36] Ms Helen Versey,
Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 29.
[37] Ms Helen
Versey, Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 29.
[38] Ms Helen Versey,
Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 29.
[39] Ms Elizabeth
Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 30.
[40] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
4.
[41] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
7.
[42] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
7.
[43] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 16.
[44] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Submission 20, p. 4.
[45] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 5.
[46] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 1.
[47] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, Submission 20, p. 4 & p. 5.
[48] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 7.
[49] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 8
[50] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
4.
[51] Ms Elizabeth
Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 32.
[52] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 15.
[53] Queensland
Information Commissioner, Submission 3, pp 3-4.
[54] Senate
Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs, Freedom of
Information, 1979, pp 158-9.
[55] ALRC and
ARC, Open government: a review of the federal Freedom of Information Act
1982, ALRC Report 77, 1995, para 11.8, Recommendation 73.
[56] Queensland
Information Commissioner, Submission 3, p. 4.
[57] PIAC, Submission
24, p. 16.
[58] Dr Johan Lidberg,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 12.
[59] Mr Jack Herman,
Executive Secretary, Australian Press Council, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 20.
[60] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 18.
[61] Ms Elizabeth
Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 33.
[62] Mr Jack Herman,
Executive Secretary, Australian Press Council, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 22.
[63] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 16.
[64] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 17.
[65]
Ms Elizabeth Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 32.
[66] McDonald
v Director-General of Social Security (1984) 1 FCR 354.
[67] The Hon
Justice Garry Downes AM, Government Agencies as Respondents in the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Paper delivered to the Australian
Government Solicitor Government Law Group, 3 February 2005, at http://www.aat.gov.au/SpeechesPapersAndResearch/speeches/downes/governmentagencies.htm
[68] The Hon
Justice Garry Downes AM, Government Agencies as Respondents in the
Administrative Appeals Tribunal, Paper delivered to the Australian
Government Solicitor Government Law Group, 3 February 2005, at http://www.aat.gov.au/SpeechesPapersAndResearch/speeches/downes/governmentagencies.htm
[69] Department
of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Summary of main changes between the exposure
draft and introduced FOI reform Bills, November 2009, available at: http://www.dpmc.gov.au/consultation/foi_reform/index.cfm,
p.7, tabled by Law Council of Australia, 5 February 2010.
[70] Mr Mark Robinson,
Law Council of Australia, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010,
p. 19.
[71] Mr Mark Robinson,
Law Council of Australia, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p. 19.
[72] Mr Mark Robinson,
Law Council of Australia, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010,
p. 19.
[73] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p.
3.
[74] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
4.
[75] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
5.
[76] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 3.
[77] Professor Spencer
Zifcak, Vice President, Liberty Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard
15 February 2010, p. 36.
[78] Ms Philippa Lynch,
First Assistant Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Proof
Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p. 13.
[79] Department
of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Answer to question on notice, 2 March
2010, pp 1‑2.
[80] Ms Philippa Lynch,
First Assistant Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Proof
Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p. 13.
[81] Professor Rosalind
Croucher, President, ALRC¸ Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p.
25.
[82] Mr Mark Robinson,
Law Council of Australia, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010,
p. 22.
[83] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 4.
[84] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 17.
[85] Mr Mark Robinson,
Law Council of Australia, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010,
p. 16.
[86] See for
example Administrative Review Council, Internal Review of Agency
Decision-Making, Report No 44, November 2000; and Better Decisions:
review of Commonwealth Merits Review Tribunals 1995, Report No 39,
September 1995.
[87] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 2.
[88] Professor John
McMillan, Commonwealth Ombudsman, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February
2010, p. 2.
[89] Associate
Professor Moira Paterson, private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 2.
[90] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 10.
[91] Mr Michael McKinnon,
Australia's Right to Know, Proof Committee Hansard, 5 February 2010, p.
10.
[92] NSW Privacy
Commissioner, Submission 6, p. 2.
[93] Ms Helen
Versey, Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 26.
[94] Ms Helen Versey,
Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 27; Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Submission 15.
[95] Ms Helen Versey,
Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 27.
[96] NSW Privacy
Commissioner, Submission 6, p. 3.
[97] Ms Elizabeth
Simpson, PIAC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 31.
[98] Professor Rosalind
Croucher, President, ALRC, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p.
24.
[99] Information
Commissioner Bill 2009, clause 14.
[100] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 7.
[101] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 9.
[102] Ms Helen Versey,
Victorian Privacy Commissioner, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February
2010, p. 28.
[103] Professor Spencer
Zifcak, Vice President, Liberty Victoria, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 38.
[104] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 9.
[105] Mr Peter Timmins,
private capacity, Proof Committee Hansard, 15 February 2010, p. 18.
[106] Commonwealth
Ombudsman, Submission 8, p. 8.
[107] Administrative
Review Council, Submission 28, p. 2.
[108] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard,
15 February 2010, p. 8.
[109] Office of the
Privacy Commissioner, Annual Report 2008–09, p. 145
[110] Ms Glenys Beauchamp,
Deputy Secretary, Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, Proof Committee
Hansard, 5 February 2010, p. 13.
[111] Commonwealth
Ombudsman, Submission 8, p. 7.
[112] Dr Johan Lidberg,
Academic Chair of Journalism, Murdoch University, Proof Committee Hansard, 15
February 2010, p. 8.
Coalition Senators' Dissenting Report
[1]
Government information – Restoring trust and integrity, Election 2007
Policy Document, October 2007.
[2]
Freedom of Information Act 1982, Annual Report 2008-09, p. 5.
[3]
Freedom of Information Act 1982, Annual Report 2008-09, p. 2.
[4]
Freedom of Information Act 1982, Annual Report 2008-09, p. 19.
[5]
Freedom of Information Act 1982, Annual Report 2008-09, p. 2 and p. 19.
[6]
Steketee, Mike. “Labours in the ministry of truth”, The Australian, 30 January 2010. Retrieved 1 March 2010: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/opinion/labours-in-the-ministry-of-truth/story-e6frg6zo-1225824638788
[7]
Summary of main changes between the exposure draft and introduce FOI reform Bills,
Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, November 2009, p. 7.
[8]
Hansard, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Reference: Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, 15 February
2010, p. 2.
[9]
Hansard, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Reference: Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, 5 February
2010, p. 13.
[10]
Ibid. p. 19.
[11]
Hansard, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Reference: Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, 15 February
2010, p. 21.
[12]
Ibid, p. 36.
[13]
Freedom of Information Bill 1981 Explanatory Memorandum Circulated by
the Honourable Ian Viner M.P., n.d., p. 51.
[14]
Parliamentary Paper 272/1979
[15]
Ibid. p. 17.
[16]
Hansard, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Reference: Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, 5 February
2010, p. 20.
[17]
Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, Explanatory Memorandum,
2008-09,
p. 2.
[18]
Byrne, Anthony. “Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009”, Second
Reading Speech, 26 November 2009.
[19]
Hansard, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Reference: Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, 15 February
2010, p. 18.
[20]
Disney, Julian. “Australian Press Council submission to the Senate Standing Committee on Finance and Public Administration on its Inquiry into the Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009 and Information Commissioner Bill 2009”, Australian Press Council.
[21]
Privacy Advisory Committee, “Comments on Information Commissioner Bill 2009”,
Submission to the Senate Finance and Public Administration References
Legislation Committee, Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009.
[22]
Hansard, Finance and Public Administration Legislation Committee,
Reference: Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009, 5 February
2010, p. 12.
[23]
Privacy Advisory Committee, “Comments on Information Commissioner Bill 2009”,
Submission to the Senate Finance and Public Administration References
Legislation Committee, Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill 2009.
[24]
McMillan, John. “Submission by the Commonwealth Ombudsman”, Senate Finance and
Public Administration Legislation Committee, Freedom of Information Amendment
(Reform) Bill 2009 and Information Commissioner Bill 2009, January 2010.
[25]
Ibid.
[26]
Waters, Nigel. “Commonwealth FOI amendments shouldn’t miss the opportunity for
real reform”, Submission on the Freedom of Information Amendment (Reform) Bill
2009 and Information Commissioner Bill 2009 to the Senate and Finance Public
Administration Committee, Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre, January 2010, p.
5.
[27]
Ibid. p. 6.