Favouring restraint over spectacle, these stories offer intimate portraits of people shaped by history, disappointment, tragedy, grief and the long shadows of secrecy.
Articles on Secrecy
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The US government has to balance the need to know with the right to privacy. It’s a delicate balancing act.
The government has a record of promising improvements in transparency, but falling short in terms of passing legislation.
After years of anecdotes, data provides a fuller picture of government agencies hiding their work from the public they ostensibly serve.
Today, the government released a review into Australia’s patchwork of a secrecy law system. The proposed changes are a step in the right direction, but there’s so much more work to do.
Nuclear weapons production and testing contaminated many sites across the US and exposed people unknowingly to radiation and toxic materials. Some have gone uncompensated for decades.
Espionage Act violations come in many different forms and can result in a wide variety of punishments.
What’s kept out of the news is just as, if not more, important than what is included.
Labor is committed to changing the law for the better. Here’s what needs doing
The Supreme Court held off at least another day before announcing a ruling on abortion rights. High profile cases take more time to finalize, but there are also political and public relations factors.
In an open democracy, there is no rationale for withholding information about National Cabinet’s decisions or any documents these decisions are based on.
The G-7 wants to set a minimum global tax rate, which would make it harder for countries to act as tax havens.
New documents expose a chink in the queen’s armour of secrecy.
The US has a long history of forced sterilization campaigns that were driven by the bogus ‘science’ of eugenics, racism and sexism.
Pope Francis recently removed a rule known as Pontifical Secrecy, which allowed clergy and church officials to withhold information regarding sexual abuse. Will it make the church truly transparent?
Australia’s metadata laws offer weak protection to journalists, but they don’t offer any to academics conducting confidential interviews.
During the Cold War, the US built nuclear weapons at a network of secretive sites across the nation. Some are still heavily polluted and threaten public health today.
Australians’ confidence in charities would be strengthened if any compliance action taken against them was made public.
We don’t expect our own government to hack our email – but it’s happening, in secret, and if current court cases go badly, we may never know how often.
Successive Australian governments have dehumanised refugees and kept Australians in the dark about what really goes on in the offshore detention centres on Nauru and Manus Island.
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Director of the Brechner Freedom of Information Project, College of Journalism and Communications, University of Florida
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