Honest Government Ad | Freedom of Information Laws

The Government has made an ad about our Freedom of Information laws, and it’s surprisingly honest and informative. 👉 Don’t support or encourage the FOI warriors here: 👉 Help us keep Governments honest: 🔹 Become a Patron: 🔹 Tip us: 🔹 Other options: 👉 SOURCES & FURTHER READING 🔹 Make sure to follow Rex Patrick who has been doing incredible work in the FOI space: 🔹 Rex Patrick has written several articles for Michael West Media about his FOI adventures, here’s the one about Albo’s diary: 🔹 Michael West Media is one of the few media outlets focusing on FOI: 🔹 Crikey also did a whole series on FOI laws: 🔹 OAIC, How to make an FOI request: 🔹 Freedom of Information Act, 1982: 🔹 “Civil society open letter urges Attorney-General to fix broken Freedom of Information system“ 🔹 Grata Fund “FOI Litigation Hit-list“ (2021 but still mostly current): 🔹 OAIC Annual report 2022-23: 🔹 The Australia Institute, “Nothing to see here“ (2023): 🔹 Centre for Public Integrity, “Another year of a broken FOI scheme“: 🔹 Senate inquiry into FOI laws (which Labor tried to block): 🔹 Guardian, “Australia’s freedom of information system ‘dysfunctional and broken’, inquiry finds“ 🔹Guardian, “Australian FoI loophole to deny access to documents closed in ‘transformative’ ruling“ 🔹 Kieran Pender, “Whistling in the dark“: 🔹 Karen Middleton, “The legal battle for freedom of information“: 🔹 Rex Patrick, podcast interview (March 2024): 👉 CREDITS 🔹 Produced by Patrons of The Juice Media 🔹 Written by Giordano for The Juice Media 🔹 Performed by Ellen: 🔹 Voice by Lucy 🔹 Main theme music by RNDMusic: 🔹 Inspiring music segment by Pepe Pérez: