Review of the National Emergency Declaration Act 2020
On the oversight and accountability structures governing how national emergencies are declared, extended and reviewed.
Submissions, instruments and case studies — the work itself, with the reasoning behind it. Each entry frames a problem and an outcome, then links out to where the work lives: GlassCase, Law & Learning and LightKey.
Submissions to parliamentary inquiries and published position papers — authored, dated, and linked to the source.
On the oversight and accountability structures governing how national emergencies are declared, extended and reviewed.
On how the Bill's drafting would shape the transparency and reviewability of administrative decisions under Australia's FOI regime.
Why institutional integrity should be observable — and how open, statute-aligned tools can make public decision-making legible.
Cognitive accessibility in administrative processes — when the process itself, not the entitlement, is what shuts people out.
Open, citable instruments built to make administrative process legible — most deposited with a DOI. Here is what each does and why it exists.
Maps which considerations a decision-maker must weigh and which they merely may — so a decision, or its review, can be audited against it.
A shared vocabulary for redaction decisions — making FOI decision quality comparable across agencies that otherwise describe them inconsistently.
A composite indicator that draws scattered signals of institutional health into one trackable measure of strain.
Structured templates that turn a courtroom visit into a repeatable learning exercise — what to watch for, and how to record it.
A doctrinal map of the GDPR aligned to the CIPP/E syllabus — the whole regime visible at a glance.
Open tool →A plain-language, accessible walkthrough of how to make a Freedom of Information request, step by step.
A worked example of the same instinct behind the tools: make the outcome legible, show the method, state the limits.
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