K81 and Queensland Police Service [2025] QICmr 74 (21 October 2025)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - APPLICATION OUTSIDE SCOPE OF ACT - ENTITIES TO WHICH ACT DOES NOT APPLY IN RELATION TO A PARTICULAR FUNCTION - application for documents concerning the respondent’s processing and deciding other access applications - whether the agency decision maker is an entity to which the Act does not apply - whether the request is outside the scope of the Act - section 52(1)(b)(ii) of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) and schedule 2, part 2, item 7 of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - REFUSAL OF ACCESS - IRRELEVANT INFORMATION - information falling outside the scope of the applicant’s request - whether deleted information is irrelevant to the terms of the access application - section 88 of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - REFUSAL OF ACCESS - CONTRARY TO THE PUBLIC INTEREST INFORMATION - personal information - whether disclosure of information would, on balance, be contrary to the public interest - section 67(1) of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) and sections 47(3)(b) and 49 of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)