A parliamentary committee has found Victoria’s freedom of information system is failing to live up to its purpose, with people sometimes waiting a year to access their own documents.
Victorians would not be charged for accessing their own medical, police or TAC records under a sweeping shake-up of freedom of information laws that would also see more documents proactively released.
Greens MP Tim Read says Victorians shouldn’t have to pay the state government for access to their own medical records.It includes a call for Victoria to shift to a “push” system where information is sent out, rather than the current model which requires people to “pull” it out of government agencies with formal requests.
While the committee, which features Allan government MPs, did not go as far as to recommend the release of cabinet documents after 30 days, as is the case in Queensland and New Zealand, it did call for the narrowing of cabinet-in-confidence exemptions.
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