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FOI/Free speech down under

More than 500 separate legal provisions in 335 different state and federal acts of Parliament are denying Australians access to a vast amount of information they should be able to see, a report says.

The Right to Know Coalition today released an audit on the state of free speech, which its authors say provides a damning picture of "how free speech and media freedom are being whittled away".

The report says acts of Parliament - including the NSW Gaming Machines Act, the Port Statistics Act, the Grain Marketing Act and the Food Act - all contained secrecy provisions preventing the release of information that should be in the public domain

Read the entire news report here from the Sydney Morning Herald.

View the entire report here.

Afterthought -- Would the major U.S. media ever commission such an audit here?
Published Wednesday, November 07, 2007 6:08 PM by JoelCampbell

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# Christian » FOI/Free speech down under

Thursday, November 08, 2007 11:12 AM by Christian » FOI/Free speech down under
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