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FOI must be part of addressing integrity problems in Victoria

Farrah Tomazin in the Sunday Age focuses on Freedom of Information as one of the areas where the Victorian  Government needs to deliver results if as promised it intends to strengthen the integrity system it inherited. 

As mentioned previously the Victorian FOI act represents the finest thinking of the nineteen eighties about government transparency and accountability but public expectations and international standards have moved on.

Then there's the issue of implementation, lack of leadership and proper forceful oversight, and what appears to be a failed attempt by the previous government to establish an FOI commissioner with clout, resources and the capacity to get things moving in the right direction.
Illustration: Matt Davidson 
 The Sunday Age Illustration: Matt Davidson.

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