Rudd move on transparency | theage.com.au

Rudd move on transparency

• Michelle Grattan
  
• July 23, 2008
  

  FEDERAL ministers have agreed to scrap their unilateral power to keep documents secret, beginning with what the Rudd Government promises will be comprehensive reform of freedom-of-information law.
  

  Special Minister of State John Faulkner also promised a big change in the culture of secrecy in the public service.
  

  All decisions refusing access to documents will be open to review by the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, under amendments going to Parliament in the spring session. Despite the greater transparency, some documents will remain off limits.
  

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