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French company Naval Group is trying to keep secret the original price it quoted for Australia’s future submarine project, which is purported to cost around $90 billion.
The Defence Department has confirmed it is paying Naval Group’s legal bills to help conceal its original price, a move that South Australian Senator Rex Patrick has described as “outrageous”. The Australian Information Commissioner, Angelene Falk, also last year directed the Defence Department to release Naval Group’s original bid details.
The Defence Department is currently challenging that directive in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, and Naval Group has joined those proceedings.
Services Australia has been ordered to apologise and pay compensation to a domestic violence victim after it disclosed her new address to her former partner.
The agency breached the Privacy Act when it failed to separate the woman s records from her former partner s then updated his online account with her new address, Australian Information Commissioner and Privacy Commissioner Angelene Falk has ruled.
The woman was alerted to the privacy breach when her ex-partner posted a picture of her new house from Google Maps to Facebook, with the comment Change your MyGov , in 2017.
She had moved hundreds of kilometres to escape the decade-long abusive relationship, and avoided telling anyone where she was going to ensure her safety.