Articles/ Reports/ Journals
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The News Media and the Law- issues Spring, Summer and Winter 1995, Spring
and Summer, 1994, Fall, 1993.
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Access Reports
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Annual Report of the Privacy Committee of South Australia, Dec 1989.
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Annual Report of the Privacy Committee of NSW, 1992.
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Annual Report of the Canadian Information Commissioner, 1991-1992.
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Annual Report of the Commonwealth Freedom of Information Act (1982) (1990-91).
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Canadian Master of Laws Thesis by Elizabeth Longworth : The Access to Information
Act: Its Impact on the Private Sector.
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Report on the Administration of the FOI Act, (Vic) (1982) for June 1988
by the Public Service Board of Victoria.
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Report on the Administration of the FOI Act (Vic) (1982) for June 1987,
by the Public Service Board of Victoria.
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Report to the Attorney- General on the Administration of the FOI Act (Vic
)(1982) for June 1985, by the Public Service Board of Victoria.
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Report to the Attorney- General on the Administration of the FOI Act (Vic)
(1982) for June 1984, by the Public Service Board of Victoria.
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Issues of the 'Newspaper of the Campaign for Freedom of Information', including
a special report and draft bill on Access to Personal Information.
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Bibliographies- including USA Bibliographic Guides to Law 1980, 1981, Current
Law Index, Vol 4, 1983, Index to US Government Periodicals 1983, Guidebook
to the FOI and Privacy Acts, 1983.
Complete folder of information relating to the issue of whether Victorian
local Government should be subject to FOI Laws. (includes letters, memorandums,
Bills, reports etc).
FOI Memorandums from the Attorney Generals Department.
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No 95: FOI ( Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations, June 1995.
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No 96: Time Limits, June 1995
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No 26: Section 26 Notices : Statements of Reasons, June 1993.
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No 19: Preliminary and Procedural Points, Dec, 1993
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No 94: Amendments to the FOI Act (1982) since the FOI Amendment Act, (1991),
June, 1994.
AG's Department: Report of the Interdepartmental Committee, Nov 1976' Policy
Reforms for Freedom of Information Legislation'.
Report of the Interdepartmental Committee: Proposed Freedom of Information
legislation, September 1974.
Law and Government Group- Legislative Research Service: 'Proposals
for Freedom of Information legislation in Australia', March 1978.
Press Release by Lionel Bowen, June 1985: Government Directions on
Administration of the FOI Act.
Submission for Cabinet of Freedom of Information by the AG., 1973, including
Cabinet Minutes of decisions.
Section 38: a provision of first or last resort ? : A Presentation for
the 1993 FOI Annual Conference of the Department of Social Security, Nov,
1993, prepared by the AG's Department.
Administrative Law Decisions
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decisions and reasons for decisions of the Commonwealth and Victorian Administrative
Appeals Tribunal
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Attorney General's Department: : FOI Decision Summaries
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Lists of Case decisions- including Victorian AAT decisions from June 1985-
December, 1994 and FOI decisions list as from October, 1993.
Submissions
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Submissions to the review by the Legal and Constitutional Committee of
the Victorian Parliament, of the Freedom of Information Act, 1982.
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Legal and Constitutional Committee: Inquiry into the Freedom of Information
Act 1982, Minutes of Evidence.
Acts and Parliamentary Debates
Commonwealth
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Index to Parliamentary Debates (Senate, 1987).
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Index to Parliamentary Debates (House of Representatives, 1987).
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House of Representatives- Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 1986, Second
Reading Speech by AG Lionel Bowen.
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House of Reps- FOI Amendment Bill 1986, Explanatory Memorandum.
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Senate debates: FOI Amendment Bill, Oct 1986.
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FOI Act (Commonwealth) 1982.
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FOI (Charges) Regulations.
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FOI (Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations
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Debates (Senate hansard Feb 1986) and memorandums concerning motions to
disallow the FOI (Charges) Regulations.
South Australia
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Freedom of Information Act (1991) (SA).
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South Australian Government : Cabinet Administrative Instruction: (Dec,
1988). ' Information Privacy Principles Instruction'.
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Freedom of Information Bill, 1990 (SA).
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House of Assembly debates on the FOI Bill, introduced into Parl in April
1990. Debates from Dec 1990- April 1991.
Tasmania
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Freedom of Information Bill, (1990) (Tas).
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Freedom of Information Act (1991) (Tas).
Queensland
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FOI Options Paper and Protection of Personal Information (Information Privacy)
Options Paper, 1990.
Victoria
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FOI Bill No 1, 1981
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FOI Bill No 3, 1981
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Legislative Assembly Debates, FOI Bill Nos. 1 and 3 , Oct 1981- Dec 1982.
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Legislative Assembly Debates, FOI (Amendment Bill), Second Reading Notes,
May 1986.
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Legislative Council Debates concerning whether local government should
be covered by the FOI Act. Oct, 1990.
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Legislative Assembly Debates, March 1988. - Disallowance of FOI Regulations
Western Australia
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Legislative Assembly Debates, FOI Bill, Second Reading, Sept, 1989. Liberal
Parliamentary Newsletter for Oct 1989, includes a reference to the introduction
of the Bill in Parliament.
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