‘This is about openess’: Deputy Premier defends state’s secrecy

Annual RTI data revealed that in 2019-20 Queenslanders spent $550,000 on 16,118 applications, an increase of 8 per cent compared to the last year where there were 14,863 applications.In the financial year State Government departments and authorities assessed 3,222,461 pages of documents, with the public refused access to about 513,278 of those – or 16 per cent.Steven Miles said the state’s Right to Information Act was operating as intended, with 500,000 documents refused compared to millions which…



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