At a time when threats to privacy abound including from a federal government that lays claim to a watchdog role to safeguard our right to privacy, a government whose leader before the 2013 election committed to increasing government transparency and accountablity, Australia today has no permanent federal information commissioner , no federal privacy commissioner, and no federal freedom of information commissioner. The Office of Australian Information Commissioner established in 2010 to enable the commissioners to carry out their functions with an initial estimate of staff required of 100, now has around 65. Attorney General Brandis is presiding over the erosion of protections put in place to safeguard the right to privacy and promote and oversight the exercise of the right to access government information. Australian Information Commissioner Professor John McMillan resigned today to become NSW Ombudsman. (Open and Shut joins the OAIC in expressing thanks fo...
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