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With 2027 marking 100 years since Old Parliament House opened its doors, MoAD has set in motion its plans for the occasion.

A former Home Affairs employee gained access to a government system to view visa information of at least 20 people or organisations.

Public servants from the Department of Prime Minister & Cabinet appeared before Senate Estimates on Friday morning.

Federal bureaucrats are to resume face-to-face support for Norfolk Island residents after COVID saw travel suspended in 2020.

A revised strategy for QLD’s second-largest city and the activities attached to or on its 170km of navigable waterways will be guided by community input. 

The days of carrying around separate access cards to get into different buildings might soon be coming to an end for the 10 agencies of the National Intelligence Community. The agencies in the recently enlarged NIC want their employees to be able to move between each other’s facilities using only one pass.

Government agencies need to continue working towards a culture of openness, says New South Wales information commissioner Elizabeth Tydd. “The adoption of an open access

This is an edited extract of a speech by the inaugural Victorian information commissioner, Sven Bluemmel, at a conference on privacy and freedom of information hosted by the Leo Cussen Centre for Law on November 30, 2017.

When floods, fires or storms strike, the public sector needs its critical IT systems. Audits across three states suggest not all agencies are up to scratch, and offer useful recommendations on best practice disaster recovery planning.

Consumers now expect government services to be where they want, when they want. For organisations, that means developing a collaborative multi-channel strategy and service offering is more important than ever.

It’s a case of meta-consultation, with the NSW Information and Privacy Commission wanting to know ideas for better engagement, particularly where the public might want agencies to do things differently.

New South Wales government agencies are getting quicker and more helpful in responding to requests for information from the public, but overall the state public service is becoming more opaque.