Q18 and Crime and Corruption Commission [2025] QICmr 105 (23 December 2025)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - JURISDICTION - DOCUMENT OF AN AGENCY - request for documents held on agency officers’ personally owned devices - whether a ‘document of an agency’ under section 12 of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) - whether subject to the right of access in section 40(1) of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - REFUSAL TO DEAL WITH APPLICATION - PREVIOUS APPLICATION FOR SAME DOCUMENTS - request for the same documents previously sought from the same agency - - whether the later application discloses any reasonable basis for again seeking access to the documents - whether section 43 of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld) applies

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - REFUSAL TO DEAL WITH APPLICATION - PREVIOUS APPLICATION FOR SAME DOCUMENTS - FORMS OF ACCESS - information subject of earlier access application provided in Portable Document Format - whether copy of document in native format is a duplicate - whether applicant entitled to access document in native format - whether applicant entitled to access metadata - sections 48(1) and 83 of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - REFUSAL OF ACCESS - DOCUMENTS NONEXISTENT OR UNLOCATABLE - whether agency has conducted reasonable searches - whether access to further documents may be refused on the basis they are nonexistent or unlocatable - section 67(1) of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) and sections 47(3)(e) and 52(1) of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW - RIGHT TO INFORMATION - REFUSAL OF ACCESS - EXEMPT INFORMATION - documents created by the Crime and Corruption Commission following a complaint - whether information was obtained, used or prepared for an investigation by a prescribed crime body in the performance of the prescribed functions of the prescribed crime body - whether information is exempt from disclosure under section 67(1) of the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld) and sections 47(3)(a) and 48 and schedule 3, section 10(4) of the Right to Information Act 2009 (Qld)