This article discusses recent decisions by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal and a full Federal Court bench to reject a two-year bid by Federal Attorney-General George Brandis to keep the "bland" summaries of meetings in his ministerial diary from being considered for release under Commonwealth FOI legislation. Furthermore, it argues that the "benign neglect" of FOI...

Rick Snell discusses the ACT government's fees for Freedom of Information requests, and its belief that responding to FOI requests is not part of a government's normal work.