Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025

Ms ROWLAND (Greenway—Attorney-General) (17:41): The government opposes the amendments. The government has a delivery focused agenda and, while reviews have their place, delivery is important for Australians. More than six reviews have considered or reported on the FOI system in the past 13 years, and the bill is the first significant amendment made to the FOI Act in response to the reviews.

Recommendations, analysis and stakeholder submissions made to previous reviews and inquiries into the FOI system were considered in the development of the bill. They included the 2013 Hawke review and the Senate committee on legal and constitutional affairs' inquiry into the operations of the FOI Act. Question unresolved.

The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Dr Garland ): As the question is unresolved, in accordance with standing order 188 the question will be included in the Federation Chamber's report to the House on the bill.