Delay, deny, defend. The FOI process is broken

The process of freedom of knowledge transforms contemporary knowledge into limited value of historical information. Rex Patrick He knows all of them very well.

The delay is only one of the tactics used by ministers and agencies to disappoint citizens who make FOI demands. A request for exemption may be made to see that the FOI applicant referred to the information commissioner for the examination of this claim. The agencies know that the information commissioner may take four to five years to overthrow a bad decision.

But wait… There’s more.

If the information commissioner overturns the decision, the minister or the agency may appeal this new decision to the Administrative Investigation Court (Art).

In Southern Australia, when the government does not like an ombudsman (equivalent to the information commissioner), they can only appeal to the civilian and administrative court for a “point of legal and administrative court and when they do, they have to pay the applicant’s lawyer’s wages.

Commonwealth is not in the field of authority. A federal minister or agency can go another. Worse, the government should interact with professional lawyers and lawyers in order to fight against their cases in art, and poor citizens should stand alone at the court’s bar table with the ‘picnic’ of lawyers discussing against them.

One -year appeal

Last year, I made a few decisions that took four or five years to overthrow the information commissioner to my favor, just the government’s appeal of art.

Worse, they can make an objection and advance new exemptions that have not been previously claimed and force the FOI applicant to start again.

In April 2024, I won an information commissioner review against the 2020 War Monument Decision, which hidden our history. The war monument appealed the decision and later put forward brand new national security exemptions.

What is such a desperate war monument to hide?

Since then, they have dealt with an expensive senior lawyer and successfully conveyed the issue to the field of intelligence and security of art, and put forward an argument against the document statement using secret arguments supported by secret evidence from a secret witness.

I have no chance to continue the original win.

In October 2024, I won an information commissioner against the 2020 Treasury decision that the foreign investment review committee approved Bellamy’s acquisition of baby formula operations in Tasmania.

Rex finally breaks the hidden firb safe, finds ‘protected information’ crates for foreign interests

The Treasury appealed the decision and stated that they have planned to advance the exemption of a new national security in the last few days and that they wanted the subject to be transferred to the field of intelligence and security judiciary. Déjà vu!

Finally, last month, the defense lost the FOI case in the decision of an information commissioner that scared them. This week, they said they objected to art. I think this is a ‘watch this field’ case.

Knowledge Commissioner Win Foi without backing up defense confidentiality

Breaking the ‘Model Case’ Obligations

When a minister or agency really does not want to be released, they objected to the decision of the independent referee and causes more delay.

The government is another technique that uses the resources of the information commissioner and art unnecessarily and adds more costs to the taxpayer.

Model is a violation of the rules that sue:

“The obligation to act as a model as a plaintiff requires honor and fair actions of the agencies of the Commission of Nations and the Committee of Nations, by or against the Nations Community of Nations or the Committee of Nations:

(a) To deal with demands immediately and not to cause unnecessary delay in handling demands and lawsuits

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(c) to act continuously in handling demands and lawsuits

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(f) Not to benefit from a plaintiff deprived of resources to make a legitimate claim

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(h) I do not obey and monitor unless the community of nations or agency has reasonable expectations for success or that the appeal is not justified for the public interest. “

Other than, if these tactics are needed to avoid giving information …