@RightToKnowAu

After careful review, we’ve decided to stop using this account. Our awesome FOI service is still alive and well at https://xitter.cf/t.co/zVuSMkbEgN

 Australia
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⚠️ Unless more of the people who use our library start supporting it every month, we will have no choice but to begin an orderly wind-down of Right to Know, They Vote For You, Planning Alerts, and OpenAustralia.org.au. 🔗 DONATE: open.org.au/FMwT
We need your help. Without regular donations, our free public library will close within months. Right to Know, They Vote For You, PlanningAlerts and OpenAustralia.org.au will all be lost.

ALT We need your help. Without regular donations, our free public library will close within months. Right to Know, They Vote For You, PlanningAlerts and OpenAustralia.org.au will all be lost.

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🔗 DONATE: open.org.au/FMwT
Here’s how to keep it open: Become a monthly supporter, starting at $20 a month. What keeps a library like this open year after year is steady, predictable income from people like you. For about the cost of a coffee per week, our small team can keep collecting new information from hundreds of government websites every day, answer your questions, fix what breaks, and build things we have wanted to for years.

ALT Here’s how to keep it open: Become a monthly supporter, starting at $20 a month. What keeps a library like this open year after year is steady, predictable income from people like you. For about the cost of a coffee per week, our small team can keep collecting new information from hundreds of government websites every day, answer your questions, fix what breaks, and build things we have wanted to for years.

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📢 A message from OpenAustralia Foundation CEO, Ben Fairless—the former volunteer administrator of Right to Know: oaf.org.au/2026/10/13/this-l…

This library is running out of money. Here is how to keep it open.

Help save OpenAustralia Foundation's vital services! Support our free online library and keep access to government information alive.

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Want to come work with us? Attitude is more important than experience.
OpenAustralia Foundation@OpenAustralia24 Oct 2021
Software developer or starting out? We're hiring! Want to apply your skills to doing good useful work in the world? Attitude > Experience Please RT - we need this to go out to people that wouldn't normally. Please help! oaf.org.au/jobs/ (with a link this time)
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It’s not like we didn’t already know this: theguardian.com/australia-ne…

Coalition ‘unlawfully’ blocking freedom of information requests

FoI system is ‘broken’, review finds, with agencies and ministers’ offices ‘gaming the system’

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Some good news for accountability and freedom of information for a change: The "national cabinet" is not a cabinet theconversation.com/nowhere-… Thank you @Senator_Patrick for making this happen

Nowhere to hide: the significance of national cabinet not being a cabinet

The legal decision that national cabinet is not a cabinet means how the body operates, and the decisions it makes, cannot be protected by cabinet confidentiality.

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Less than 8 hours left before the end of the financial year. Oh no! Please make a tax-deductible donation to help with democracy in Australia oaf.org.au/donate/ Pretty please!
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Right To Know retweeted
Richard Nelson
@wabzqem24 May 2021
It would be nice to think my FOI request (due in a few days, linked in article) on these costs made a bit of a difference. Perhaps an unused environment or two was torn down..
iTnews@iTnews_au24 May 2021
DTA shaves $40,000 a month off its COVIDSafe cloud hosting bill: 'Tuning efforts applied' after sky-high costs criticised. itnews.com.au/news/dta-shave…

DTA shaves $40,000 a month off its COVIDSafe cloud hosting bill

'Tuning efforts applied' after sky-high costs criticised.

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Federal FOI news: Standalone Freedom of Information Commissioner to be appointed innovationaus.com/standalone…

Standalone FOI Commissioner to be appointed

A standalone Freedom of Information Commissioner will be appointed to work alongside the Privacy Commissioner, with the government to finally meet its legislative requirements in separating the...

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No alcohol needed 😉 but if you find us useful you can make a tax deductible donation to the charity behind Right to Know here: oaf.org.au/donate/rightoknow…
Sam Connor
@criprights13 Apr 2021
Replying to @criprights
7/ Are you ready, curious people? What ARE you curious about? You can ask the Agency directly, or use the very good Right to Know website. Ready - set - go! righttoknow.org.au/select_au… @RightToKnowAu - we apologise and offer our services or very good alcohol as compensation :D

Find an authority

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Whoops, That donate link should be oaf.org.au/donate/righttokno…
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Luke Bacon@equivalentideas6 Apr 2021
Lovely to see the ongoing evolution righttoknow.org.au/ updated with a bunch of new tools for frequent FOI requesters, see righttoknow.org.au/pro

Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests

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Thank you. Your kind words are much appreciated.
Vote for Transparency@FOIcentric6 Apr 2021
Replying to @RightToKnowAu
Love the new @RightToKnowAu site, thanks to everyone involved. Now that the cabinet shuffle has been sorted, it might be time for a new #foi request.
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Ben Grubb 🐛@bengrubb6 Apr 2021
Be interesting to see if any media orgs sign up for paid access to the FOI site @RightToKnowAu, which is now offering a paid version for journalists, allowing them to "keep requests and responses private while you work on your story", among other features righttoknow.org.au/pro/prici…

A powerful, fully-featured FOI toolkit for journalists

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Right to Know now has a cleaner, more usable and modern design. Enjoy. righttoknow.org.au/

Make and browse Freedom of Information (FOI) requests

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Announcing Right to Know Pro - For Journalists, Researchers, Academics, Campaigners, and FOI professionals oaf.org.au/2021/03/30/right-…
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Also tomorrow a whole slew of new powerful features for journalists "Right to Know Pro"
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