Introduction The publication of public servants’ advice to ministers under freedom of information threatens to undermine good government, the head of New Zealand’s Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has warned, in comments echoing several senior Australian bureaucrats.

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...

The past five years have been a time of liberalization and change in Burma. The abolition of prior censorship and a loosening of licensing requirements has led to a vibrant press, and the shift from formal military rule has emboldened civil society.

The first World Trends report in 2014 filled an important gap in contemporary media and communications research. While other studies and reports offered snapshots of specific dimensions or regions, UNESCO’s World Trends was the first to present a systematic trend analysis of the multiple aspects of media freedom, pluralism, independence, and safety, while giving special...

The rapid advancement of technology has resulted in increasing privacy implications for library and information services, their users, and society. Commercial Internet services, including those used to deliver library and information services, collect extensive data on users and their behaviour.