There are more than 500 secrecy provisions which criminalise making government information public.
"Many of these secrecy provisions are just kind of added in as a bit of a meaningless persiflage in the legislation," MEAA federal secretary Chris Warren said.
"But in accumulation they create a climate of secrecy which means people can't know what's going on in their society."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-05-05/secrecy-laws-stifling-press-freedom-report/3993048
