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MEDIA RELEASE - 2024 to 2025:
  • Free Public Service Issues Community Alert and Call to Speak Out About NCAT’s Continued Unlawful Awarding of Legal Costs in GIPA and PPIP Act Cases, 31.10.2025
  • NSW Freedom of Information issues Open Letter to NSW government agencies, Seeking Disclosure Notice on Use of IPC GIPA TOOL, 30.09.2025
  • NSW Privacy Commissioner Reluctant to Educate Subordinate Agencies about Legislated Obligations to Make Due Disclosures Concerning Use of the IPC GIPA Tool, 24.09.2025
  • Narrabri Council Reveals Systemic Incompetency in Fundamental Administration Processes, Leaving Potential Thousands of Locals Without Statutory Legal Documentation, 18.09.2025
  • Mayor of Port Stephens Council Ordered to Issue Written Apology for Breach of Privacy, 01.08.2025
  • Local Council Uses Public Monies & Resources to Achieve Ultimate Act of Bastardry! Port Stephens Council Governance Manager & Senior Solicitor Continue Ongoing Campaign of Retaliation Against Whistleblowers Exposing Systemic Corruption,16.04.2025
  • Grieving Family Suspecting Foul Play Around the Premature Death of their Adult Son, and Suspected Acts of Fraud in the Application for Letters of Administration concerning Their Son's Estate, Prevented Access to NSW Supreme Court Files, 11.02.2025
  • NSW Dept of Customer Service Confirms NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Lacks Jurisdictional Powers to Consider and Award Costs Claims in Context of both GIPA and PPIP Acts, 17.01.2025
  • FREE Community Service Website Reveals its 2025 Plans, 01.01.2025
  • Justice NSW Throws the Baby Out with the Bathwater Due to Clear Lack of Fundamental Reading Comprehension Skills, 05.12.2024
  • NCAT Enables Agencies to Run a Case within a Case when Determining Whether or Not to Approve an Access Application under a GIPA Act 2009 Section 110 Order, Increasing the Waste of Judicial Public Resources, Causing Distress and Anxiety to the Public, 24.11.2024
  • Secretary, NSW Dept of Communities & Justice Continues Trolling and Stalking Behaviours to Avoid Accountability for Using the Public’s Personal Information with Collateral Intent, 05.11.2024
  • Dept of Communities & Justice Director Open Government Information & Privacy Unit Manipulates Policy for Purposes of Procrastinating Legislated Right to Information Protocols, 30.10.2024
  • Toxic State Government Behaviours Exposed! Public’s Ongoing Investigation into NSW Right to Information and Privacy Officer Behaviours and Activities Reveals Cartel Posse Mentality, Denigrating Legislated Rights and Undermining Beneficial Legislation, 23.09.2024
  • Newly Appointed NSW IPC Commissioner Gives Renewed Hope to Public Endeavouring to Access its Beneficial Legislation, 23.09.2024
  • Request for Urgent Parliamentary Inquiry into the Maladministration, Systemic Abuse, and Failures of the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal and the NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Act 2013 Confirmed Received by Extensive List of Ministers, Senator, Legislative Council and National Media, 30.08.2024
  • Public Let Down by NSW Information & Privacy Commissioner's Recommendation to Use Superseded Outdated Caselaw, 29.08.2024
  • NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Continues to Withhold Access to Tribunal Services from The Public In Contradiction to Open Justice Principles, 21.08.2024
  • NSW Dept of Communities & Justice Blatantly Thumbs its Nose at Valid Breach of Privacy Complaint with Privacy Commissioner, 18.08.2024
  • NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal Protects Director of Dept of Communities & Justice from Rightful Action of Breach of Personal Privacy and Misusing the Public’s Personal Information for a Collateral Purpose by Decision to Prevent Proper Release of Internal Policy Document, 14.08.2024
  • Sydney Water Threatens Un-Represented Information Access Applicant with Costs Should Proceedings in NCAT Progress to Hearing, 12.08.2024
  • NSW Law Society Discloses Investigations into Solicitor Gross Professional Misconduct Fail by not Meeting Briginshaw v Briginshaw Legal Principle, 31.07.2024
  • NSW Office of Local Government Discloses It Has a "BS" Department, 14.07.2024
  • Ex-Top NSW Cop Discloses Justice NSW’s Electronic Record Keeping System Lacks Capabilities to Search Document Content In Order to Properly Respond to Requests for Government Information, 09.07.2024
  • Port Stephens Council & Sydney's Lindsay Taylor Lawyers Caught Inflating Legal Costs Against Unrepresented Parties by Over 30% to Compound Quantity of Costs Claim, 08.07.2024
  • Port Stephens Council Joins the Defamation Queue Threatening Legal Action Against Site Administrator of Free Community Service, 03.06.2024
  • Justice NSW Caught Out Bypassing Access to Information Mandates, Requesting the Public’s Personal Information State-Wide for a Fabricated Departmental Study, 24.05.2024
  • Goulburn Mulwaree Shire Council Staff Exposed Using Public Monies to Threaten Defamation Action Against Site Administrator of Free Community Service, 11.03.2024
  • Free NSW Public Service Website Reveals Plans for 2024 Expansion of Its Community Services, 18.01.2024
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