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How non-government politicians use the FOI system to hold the government accountable

Whether it’s informing public policy debate or calling out broken election promises, FOI is a vital tool.

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Journalists couldn’t have told these important stories without freedom of information requests

From the Drumgold letter to the Dutton au pair controversy, here are some of the things you mightn’t have known without FOI.

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Information is a national resource: Crikey’s submission to the FOI Senate inquiry

Crikey’s editor and editor-in-chief call on Australia’s leaders to prioritise transparency at a time when the public’s faith in government is plummeting.

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‘The system is broken’: a landmark legal battle sets the stage for FOI reform

A Federal Court case on Australia’s FOI system gets to the heart of the delays suffered by journalists, politicians and everyday citizens.

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Police arrest Sydney man over threats to the ABC’s Stan Grant

The man was charged with using a carriage service ‘to threaten serious harm’ among other offences, a police spokesperson said.

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Give incarcerated people the vote, say the First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria

The First Peoples’ Assembly of Victoria is adamant that everyone, even those currently in prison, should be able to vote in its elections.

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‘Tone is obviously inappropriate’: read the government’s letter to PwC

The ‘friendly’ 2022 letter to beleaguered consultancy firm PwC reminded it not to use confidential government information to solicit further work.

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Yes or No: the organisations taking a public position on the Voice, and those sitting on the fence

Crikey has compiled an industry-by-industry checklist of where the big players stand on an Indigenous Voice to Parliament.

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Alice Springs hub challenges fallacies about science and tech knowledge

City folks’ ‘cutting edge’ technology goes by gigahertz, gigabytes and RAM, but the bush offers a sophisticated slowness to science and tech.

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Anti-Voice ‘news’ Facebook page is run by the No camp, but you wouldn’t know it

‘Referendum News’ has shown exclusively anti-Voice posts more than a million times, using thousands of dollars of Facebook and Instagram ads.

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Here’s what Australia faces if and when we pass 1.5C of warming by 2027

Scientists say there is a 98% chance the world will sweat through the hottest year on record before 2028.

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Plibersek’s hands are tied over coalmine approval but Labor could’ve changed that years ago

Four separate coal projects have been greenlit in Australia in the past four days — three in NSW and one in Queensland.

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China’s crackdown makes Beijing dealings an even riskier business

Australian businesspeople cop it from both ends: the threat of arrest both in China and when they come home is a real and present danger.

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Ace up Albo’s sleeve

Prime Minister Anthony Albanese finds gambling ads during the footy ‘annoying’ and says he’s already set up a review into sports betting, and the cost of sending your child to school has grown faster than most household bills.

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Rank hypocrisy: Seymour takes the fall as PwC enters reputation rehab mode

PwC touts itself as a ‘community of solvers’ with the aim of building trust and creating positive outcomes. Now the ugly truth is emerging.

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Here’s how Central Australia will spend the government’s $250m ‘bush’ budget

The federal government will take a step back and let a soon-to-be established local leadership team decide how to spend $90 million.

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Is it possible to ease cost of living without adding to inflation, as Chalmers claims?

Crikey asked economics experts if that’s actually possible.

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Sky News Australia’s YouTube videos among 100 flagged for monetising climate disinformation

Google said in 2021 that it would stop running ads alongside videos that spread climate change disinformation or denialism. It didn’t.

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Regional council members to sue community radio station over spa project comments

In the regional New South Wales town of Coonamble, council members are wielding defamation laws and the threat of financial ruin to rebuff local media.

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Labor’s billions to fossil fuel companies heralds a new era of political betrayal

Caught between sunny rhetoric and darker realities, Australia’s continued privileging of fossil fuel companies above the people will live in infamy.

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‘Delighted’: Qantas engineers and pilots respond to Alan Joyce’s departure

The longtime CEO may be going, but the announcement of his replacement, Vanessa Hudson, hasn’t raised the spirits of many staff.

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‘Appalling’: Morrison’s role as AUKUS father should disqualify him from plum defence job

Morrison’s own ministerial code of conduct suggests an AUKUS gig would be a step too far. But don’t expect that to stop the revolving door.

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Goliath News Corp is wounded but challenges remain

In one of the world’s most tightly held media industries, one smaller voice struck a blow for freedom of expression, writes Alexandra Wake

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SBS staff to vote on new pay deal as unions push for career progression and improved rostering

A new pay classification system and rostering have emerged as two key issues for unionised staff at the SBS.

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‘Kicking our futures down the road’: a child is a child, not a criminal, Crikey readers say

Crikey readers agree it’s a crime that the age of criminal responsibility is so low and that Indigenous children suffer the most from this injustice.

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