Comments on: Faulkner’s Freedom of Information shake-up http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/faulkners-freedom-of-information-shake-up/ now with extra source Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:58:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Christopher http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/faulkners-freedom-of-information-shake-up/#comment-13513 Christopher Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13513 I read through Faulkner's statement carefully. However well intentioned he is, the same fatal flaw in the legislation remains. Where there is a third party involved, whether it be a company or an individual, the Privacy Act requires that the third party must give consent to release of the document(s). My experience is that they never do. I read through Faulkner’s statement carefully. However well intentioned he is, the same fatal flaw in the legislation remains. Where there is a third party involved, whether it be a company or an individual, the Privacy Act requires that the third party must give consent to release of the document(s). My experience is that they never do.

]]> By: kay http://www.crikey.com.au/2009/03/24/faulkners-freedom-of-information-shake-up/#comment-13514 kay Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000 #comment-13514 yaaa-aay -- woohoo!! Go Faulkner! my new favouritist politician. I could even hug you. <br /><br />It may not be everything but it (will be) a welcome step forward in what is turning out to be a remarkably long road to get people to make a habit of telling the truth (and the whole truth) to everyone and not just to their close friends, colleagues and advisers in tight little conspiratorial huddles. Apart from the usual closet expert-elitists and wanna-be-kings, I don't understand how anyone can expect democracy to work properly without telling the truth to everyone being the norm, rather than the exception.<br /><br />It seems to me that having (mostly) got rid of the King we need to take the next step and also get rid of all his secretive conspiratorial practices. Instead, of course, we've re-badged and multiplied these techniques in all sorts of presumptuous places. yaaa-aay — woohoo!! Go Faulkner! my new favouritist politician. I could even hug you.

It may not be everything but it (will be) a welcome step forward in what is turning out to be a remarkably long road to get people to make a habit of telling the truth (and the whole truth) to everyone and not just to their close friends, colleagues and advisers in tight little conspiratorial huddles. Apart from the usual closet expert-elitists and wanna-be-kings, I don’t understand how anyone can expect democracy to work properly without telling the truth to everyone being the norm, rather than the exception.

It seems to me that having (mostly) got rid of the King we need to take the next step and also get rid of all his secretive conspiratorial practices. Instead, of course, we’ve re-badged and multiplied these techniques in all sorts of presumptuous places.

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