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?