Key Point
- Queensland will have a new regime regulating the right to
information by the middle of next year.
Queensland may be an hour behind during daylight saving time but
the Queensland Government has got the jump on other governments by
recently announcing that it will seek to implement most of the
recommendations proposed by an independent review panel following a
comprehensive review of Queensland's freedom of information
laws released earlier this year.
The Queensland Premier, Ms Anna Bligh, had appointed an
independent review panel in September 2007 to undertake the
comprehensive review. In June 2008, following extensive
consultations, the review panel provided the Queensland Government
with a 400 page report, "The Right to Information - Reviewing
Queensland's Freedom of Information Act", which made 141
recommendations to improve and modernise Queensland's freedom
of information legislation.
