Committee: Legal and Constitutional
Affairs Legislation Committee
Date referred: 04 September 2025
Submissions close: TBC
Reporting date: 03 December 2025
On 4 September 2025, the Senate referred the Freedom of Information Amendment Bill 2025 to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs Legislation Committee for inquiry and report by Wednesday, 3 December 2025.
The Bill would amend the Freedom of Information Act 1982 (the FOI Act) and the Australian Information Commissioner Act 2010 to modernise the Freedom of Information framework, reduce system inefficiencies, address abuses of process, and clarify the operation of certain provisions and exemptions within the FOI Act.