Additions to the site in 1997
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| Press Release: 11 December 1997 "Campaign welcomes impressive freedom of information proposals." |
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| Initial press comment warmly welcoming the white paper on Freedom of Information, "Your Right to Know". Added December 1997 | |
| Briefings to read with the Freedom of Information white paper | |
| Includes a brief Checklist of things to look out for in the white paper, and a longer Key Issues paper. Added 9 December 1997 | |
| Press Release: 29 October 1997 "Government departments 'misguided' on commercial confidentiality" |
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| Press release and survey on the misunderstanding by Government departments of the term "commercially confidential", and how this is often cited without good cause as a reason for keeping information secret. Added October 1997 | |
| Publication of papers of previous administrations | |
| Letter to Jeff Rooker MP, Agriculture Minister, about the availibility to ministers and the public of papers from previous administrations. Added October 1997 | |
| Freedom of Information - The Australian Experience | |
| Lecture by Australian Senator Alan Missen to a meeting organised by the Campaign for Freedom of Information at the House of Commons, July 1984. Added October 1997 | |
| What was new in 1998 | |
| Latest additions to the Campaign's website | |
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