Students and researchers

The Office of the Information Commissioner (OIC) recognises the value of education and research to promote awareness and understanding of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) (RTI Act) and the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) (IP Act).

A range of information and resources and legal resource tools are available to assist students and researchers, including:

Guidelines

For government:

• Guidelines - Access and amendment
• Guidelines - Privacy principles

Information sheets

For community members:

• Information sheets - Access and amendment
• Information sheets - Privacy principles

Decisions

• Search decisions
• Financial hardship

Annotated legislation

• Search annotated legislation

Case studies

• External review
• Privacy 

Reports

• Compliance and audit
• Annual Reports 

Research papers

• Transparency Occasional Paper 1: Transparency and Public Sector Performance (PDF, 354KB)
• Transparency Occasional Paper 2: Transparency and Productivity (PDF, 799KB)
• Transparency Occasional Paper 3: Transparency and Policy Implementation (PDF, 1.1MB)
• Transparency Occasional Paper 4: Transparency in Practice (PDF, 478KB)
• Reviews involving repeat applicants (PDF, 330.34 KB)

Online safety - resources for teachers and parents 

The program Online Safety, It Starts With You! is a free course for the schools to help teach students from Year 1 to 6 how to be safe online.

• Online safety. It starts with you! 

Youth teaching module

This module is designed to help students develop awareness about privacy issues, and the security of their personal information.

• Protecting your online reputation (Senior secondary school students)

Other

Possible open government research topics (PDF, 30.15 KB)