The section 13 exemption be extended to information from such governments subdivisions of nations as U.S. state governments and perhaps to self-governing native bands. The implications of applying a discretionary, injury-based exemption to information given in confidence from international organizations and foreign states be examined. Government institutions be required to disclose any information, with or without a formal request, whenever the public interest in disclosure clearly outweighs any of the interests protected by the exemptions. Public opinion polls be accessible to the public. Polls and survey data not be subject to exemptions under the Act.
Government institutions maintain a current list of polls and surveys.
The Access Act be amended to make clear that recorded information in offices of Cabinet ministers is government information and subject to the law and its exemptions. The nine classes of information listed are merely illustrative of possible injuries. The practice of skirting the law by placing more and more statutes and the information they generate under the section 24 statutory prohibition from disclosure be brought to an end by the abolition of section 24. Discretion be given to the Information Commissioner to waive the one-year limit within which complaints must be made. Acts or omissions intended to thwart the right of access should be subject to penalty in the same manner as is any other breach of trust.