House debates Bills

Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025; Consideration in Detail

Wednesday, 5 November 2025 House of Representatives

Michelle Rowland

Michelle Rowland Greenway, Australian Labor Party, Attorney-General

4:14 pm

I appreciate the question from the member. As I said, the bill provides for regulations to prescribe fees for FOI applications, internal reviews and information commission reviews. A vast number of FOI requests continue to be for access to personal information, at about 75 per cent. So that would be excluded from those fees. This would all depend, obviously, on the number of requests that are received. Being unable to see into the future, it would be inappropriate to make an estimation.

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