A regulator set out to check whether government agencies publish the documents they release under freedom of information law. To do it, they used our collection.
Our 2025-26 year in review: 198,020 development applications collected, 57 new councils added and 133 restored on Planning Alerts, 1,678 FOI requests on Right to Know, a growing…
The OpenAustralia Foundation is a small charity with a big footprint. We build free, open-source tools that help Australians understand what their government is doing and exercise their…
In December last year we made a difficult decision to no longer allow people to make requests to the Classification Board or the Classification Review Board for documents…
The Albanese Government has introduced the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025, presented as a reform to “strengthen” the FOI framework. According to the Attorney-General’s press release, the…
We have made a submission to the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner (OAIC), who were consulting on changes they proposed to make to Part 3 — Processing…
We’ve recently updated the page for the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner, also known as the OAIC, to make it clear people can’t use Right to Know…
A new way to make FOI requests, for professionals Since we launched Right to Know we’ve regularly heard from journalists, who would love to use Right to Know,…
On 23 August 2018 the Senate referred the Freedom of Information Legislation Amendment (Improving Access and Transparency) Bill 2018 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and…
