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Attorney-General Michelle Rowland (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)

Labor’s list of talking points on its bill to limit Australia’s freedom of information (FOI) system focuses on two main arguments:

The reforms to the FOI Act — including the imposition of time restraints and application fees — are needed because AI is being misused to generate FOI requests, and because there’s a risk foreign adversaries may try to exploit the system, Labor says.

Rowland was armed with those same arguments when she launched the bill last month, although her office could not provide examples of the foreign actors claim at the time.

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