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When the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner set out to check whether agencies publish the documents they release under FOI, it needed a record of what had been released and when.
For part of that work, it used Right to Know. The review of 30 agencies' disclosure logs names it more than thirty times and cites it in the footnotes.
This is what our library is for: https://oaf.org.au/2026/08/13/this-is-what-our-library-is-for/ -
Want to make a public Freedom of Information (FOI) request in Australia? https://www.righttoknow.org.au makes it straightforward - every request and response is published for anyone to read.
But heaps of FOI documents are quietly released onto disclosure logs that no-one reads. So how do you find the interesting ones?
Record Radar reviews every Australian federal department's FOI releases and surfaces the ones worth reading, once a week: https://anilabs.news/recordradar/
#FOI #OpenGov #RightToKnow