Australia’s new freedom of information commissioner, the former Commonwealth ombudsman John McMillan, was appointed in February to oversee the federal government’s new FOI laws, which will soon be enacted. He discussed his role with Elizabeth Jackson on ABC radio’s AM. According to Professor McMillan, “One of the roles of this new commission will be to take a central leadership in the development of a pro-disclosure culture in government. And we’ll do that through familiar ways; through training, through publication of manuals and guidelines, through getting agencies to develop best practice in web publication, but also reaching out a lot more to the community, to journalists and to members of parliament to provide them with essential information about making document and information requests to government.”
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