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A national fireams register would have allowed police to better assess risk posed by alleged Bondi shooters before attack. A register, which would track weapons across the country in real time, was a priority for law enforcement and gun control advocates after the 1996 Port Arthur massacre. Almost 30 years later, it remains unfinished, hampered by poor resourcing and poor recordkeeping.
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A shift in Queensland’s approach to allowing adopted people or their families to access information to reunite has cast a shadow over three decades of reform.
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From pulp mills to stadiums, Tasmanians don't have access to information about how and why decisions are made. A review of the state's transparency system says this — and many other things — should change.
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Patients have been left blindsided by Monash IVF's decision to temporarily halt treatments using donated eggs and sperm in New South Wales.
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A Tasmanian coroner has released his findings from an investigation into 177 human specimens held in the collection of a university museum without the consent or knowledge of families. The investigation required complex manual searches and reconciliation of records with "very little additional resources" provided to the Coroners' Office to do the work.
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Objects including three-metre spears were collected in late 19th and early 20th centuries and donated to city’s museum
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A University of Tasmania pathology museum retained and displayed body parts without consent from coronial autopsies. The specimens are from more than 100 people who died in Tasmania between 1953 and 1985. The Coroner's Office is investigating and has spent years reconciling their records with the museum's records.
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Stories of murders passed down by Yamatji elders are confirmed by a code hidden in the 1850s journals of prominent Western Australian pastoralist Major Logue.
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Public servants and private contractors with access to sensitive national security information are making it easy for spies, including by posting on LinkedIn.
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A Centre for Public Integrity report found in 2022-23, for the first time, more FOI requests were refused than fully granted to applicants. The report also found the number of FOI documents granted in full had fallen by more than half in just over a decade.
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Representatives led by Patrick Dodson met Queen but memo reveals PM advised to plead ‘diary problems’
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Tech giant says posts from Australian Facebook and Instagram users are ‘vital learning’ about ‘concepts, realities, and figures’
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Why, 200 years ago, was a five-year-old girl in Scotland painstakingly embroidering her idea of Australia, and what lessons are hidden in her work?
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One hundred recommendations are handed down as Australia's first truth-telling inquiry finds crimes against humanity and genocide were committed against Aboriginal people in Victoria. The Yoorrook Justice Commission also published an "official public record" of the history of Victoria since colonisation as told to the inquiry.
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Australian employers are monitoring employees, frequently without workers' knowledge or consent. A new report found workers are being watched using optical, listening, data, tracking and physical surveillance. Poor regulation means there is a lack of control on surveillance and the collection of data.
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Gathering of face and voice data went unnoticed for one month after it was automatically enabled for video conferencing app users in March.
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Family members of Afghans unlawfully killed by foreign military forces during the 20-year war in Afghanistan have been waiting a long time for justice. Last week revealed two quite different approaches by countries that should provide it.
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The Australian government is refusing freedome of information requests at a rate not seen in a decade, prompting concern among transparency advocates. However the federal government is releasing more FOIs in full that its state and territory counterparts.
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Medical records of hundreds of patients at a Sydney hospital's cancer genetics service have been reviewed following irregularities related to care by a single specialist.
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Australia's ban on under-16s from social media is due to take effect in December 2025. The law says social media platforms can't use official identification such as passports to check ages, and shouldn't track Australians. An age assurance technology trial is in its final stages.
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