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• Thomas Bade and Huon Valley Council

  Mr Thomas Bade is a resident of a semi-rural area within the Huon Valley local government area and has been in a dispute with a nearby landholder regarding earthworks undertaken on the nearby land. The Huon Valley Council (Council) issued an enforcement order for the nearby land and subsequently withdrew the order.

  Mr Bade made an application for assessed disclosure to Council seeking information relating to the enforcement order. Council applied ss30 and 36 of the Act to exempt some information. Mr Bade sought external review.

  The Ombudsman determined that:

  • exemptions claimed pursuant to s30 were not made out; and
  • exemptions claimed pursuant to s36 were varied.
  Thomas Bade and Huon Valley Council (PDF, 248.0 KB)
  Dec 2024 Sections 30 36 Section 30 Section 36 Huon Valley Council

• Geoffrey Swan and Huon Valley Council

  On 18 October 2021, Mr Geoffrey Swan made an application for assessed disclosure under the Right to Information Act 2009 to the Huon Valley Council (Council). He sought information relating to the investigation into the recruitment process of Council’s new General Manager, commissioned following controversy regarding the way Council managed a conflict of interest that arose during that process. Council issued a decision on 13 October 2021 to refuse the application in full, on the basis that it considered the information exempt due to it relating to:

  • legal professional privilege (s31); and
  • information related to closed meetings of council (s32).

  Mr Swan then sought external review of Council’s decision.

  The Ombudsman determined that:

  • Council’s use of s31 was varied;
  • Council’s use of s32 was varied; and
  • Information was found to be exempt pursuant to s35 (internal deliberative information).
  Geoffrey Swan and Huon Valley Council (PDF, 193.9 KB)
  Jun 2022 Sections 31 32 Section 31 Section 32 Huon Valley Council