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MNDB Scheme Trends Report: July 2024 - June 2025

This fact sheet provides a guide to open access information that agencies must make available and assists you to understand your rights in accessing this information.

This Fact Sheet provides information to individuals on the calculation of time for action under the GIPA Act.

This fact sheet provides information for individuals seeking access to workplace investigation information under the GIPA Act.

This fact sheet provides information for member of the public seeking information following their participation in a recruitment process with a NSW government agency.

This Fact Sheet is for NSW public sector agency staff and explains the timeframes that apply to agencies for deciding access applications.

This fact sheet provides information to public sector staff on the public interest test and how to apply it.

This fact sheet provides information for individuals seeking access to complaints information under the GIPA Act.

This Fact Sheet is for public sector agency staff to help understand what ‘open access’ information is from your agency’s perspective.

This fact sheet provides guidance to individuals about lodging an application for internal review of an agency’s decision under the GIPA Act.

In NSW, you have a right to access most government information under the GIPA Act unless there is an overriding public interest against disclosure.

This fact sheet provides guidance for NSW public sector agency staff on when agencies' wholly-owned subsidiary entities are captured under the GIPA Act.

This fact sheet outlines factors relevant to an application to access a deceased person’s records under the GIPA Act.

This guide assists agencies to comply with their reporting obligations under section 125 of the GIPA Act and GIPA Regulation.

If you are dissatisfied with certain government agency decisions about releasing information, you can apply to the Information Commissioner to review those decisions.

This Fact Sheet provides guidance to NSW public sector agencies and Health Care Providers in understanding the issue of consent in the context of privacy laws in NSW.

This self-assessment checklist assists agencies in the assessment of whether consent is required for the use and disclosure of personal information.

This fact sheet provides agencies with information on authorised proactive release of government information

This fact sheet assists applicants and agencies in understanding client legal privilege and when this applies when refusing access to information applied for under the GIPA Act.

If you have a privacy complaint about how a NSW agency has handled your personal or health information, you can ask for them to conduct an ‘internal review’.