Victoria poaches WA information commissioner for new office by Stephen Easton | 0 comments Victoria has poached Western Australia's information commissioner, but he gets to keep the same job title in a newly established office that opens its doors in Melbourne tomorrow with combined responsibility for privacy protection and public access to government information.
Victoria an information policy ‘backwater’: privacy commission abolition bill passes by David Donaldson | 0 comments Victorian privacy and data protection commissioner David Watts has hit out at the government over the abolition of his agency, suggesting the information commissioner model it is about to introduce "does not work" and the state is now considered a "backwater" for information policy.
Merger to create Victorian Information Commissioner and faster FOI by David Donaldson | 0 comments Victoria has slightly altered course on FOI and privacy reforms, with a merger to create a new Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner. Changes to FOI response and VCAT appeal times will still go ahead.
