Public Service Association and Professional Officers Association, Amalgamated Union of NSW -v- Director General, Premier's Department [2002] NSWADT 277

CITATION: Public Service Association and Professional Officers Association, Amalgamated Union of NSW -v- Director General, Premier's Department [2002] NSWADT 277 DIVISION: General Division APPLICANT PARTIES: Public Service Association and Professional Officers Association, Amalgamated Union of NSW RESPONDENT Director General, Premier's Department FILE NUMBER: 013298; 023049 HEARING DATES: 16/05/2002 SUBMISSIONS CLOSED: 06/06/2002 DATE OF DECISION: 12/24/2002

BEFORE: Britton A - Judicial Member APPLICATION: access to documents - confidential material - access to documents - if practicable to give access with exempt material deleted - access to documents - operation of agencies - access to documents - personal affairs - Freedom of Information - access to documents - if practicable to give access with exempt material deleted - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - confidential material - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - operation of agencies - Freedom of Information Act - access to documents - personal affairs MATTER FOR DECISION: Principal matter Anti-Discrimination Act 1977 LEGISLATION CITED : Freedom of Information Act 1989 Privacy & Personal Information Protection Act 1998 Commissioner of Police v District Court of NSW (Perrin's Case) (1993) 31 NSWLR 606 Gilling v General Manager, Hawkesbury City Council [1999] NSWADT 43 Colakovski v Australian Telecommunications Corporation (1991) 29 FCR 429 CASES CITED: Re B and Brisbane North Regional Health Authority (1993) 1 QAR 279 Corrs Pavey Whiting & Byrne v Collector of Customs (1987) 14 FCR 434 Re James and the Australian National University (1984) 2 AAR 327 Mangoplah Pastoral Co Pty Ltd v Great Southern Energy [1999] NSW ADT 93 Rittau v Commissioner of Police [2000] NSWADT 186, Watkins v Chief Executive, Roads and Traffic Authority [2000] NSWADT 11 APPLICANT REPRESENTATION: P Lowson, barrister RESPONDENT R M Henderson, barrister ORDERS: 1. Decisions under review are affirmed.