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-> Press Release: 11 December 1997
"Campaign welcomes impressive freedom of information proposals."
  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"
  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
   
arrow 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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