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.

In this research brief Thomas John provides an overview of the last 15 years of developments in whistleblower legislation in Australia and looks at some of the legal issues surrounding the topic.

Garry Rodan analyses the nature and significance of different views on the relationship between economic and political liberalism by examining the meaning and purpose of transparency reform among neoliberals. He also assesses the implications of these transparency reforms for regimes in Southeast Asia.