The Oz’s dodgy maths, an FOI fracas, and Senate hit in the NACC

FOI vulnerabilities: He speculates that a Senate hearing failed to get to the bottom of who in the Attorney General’s Department decided to defer to an FOI on FOI reform “due to conjectures”.

If this sentence makes your head spin, you’re not the only one.

At yesterday morning’s estimates hearing, AGD secretary Katherine Jones was questioned about a news story. Canberra Times about some FOI shenanigans that happened in February this year. The article reported that bureaucrats in Jones’s organization had asked colleagues to delay the release of documents about Labour’s failure. Freedom of Information Act Reforms were made to prevent this decline from occurring before the previous round of forecasting, which started on February 9.