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RTI Rating Australia

Australia at No. 69 in ranking of transparency

The transparency law of Australia has been in force since 1982 and with it has earned 84 points in the Global Right to Information Rating (RTI Rating). With that score Australia is now ranked 69 in the transparency ranking formed by 136 countries, meaning it is among those that must improve its laws in order to guarantee access to information.

This index ranks countries giving them a score of 0-150 depending on the strength of its legal framework which guarantees the right to information.

In the next table you can also see the scores obtained by Australia in each of the groups that make up the index. Access the list with the classification of all countries by clicking on RTI Rating and the economic information for Australia by clicking on Economy of Australia.


Australia - Global Right to Information Rating
DateRTI RakingYear RTI lawAccessScopeRequestingExceptionsAppealsSanctionsPromotionRTI Rating
202269º1,98221121152321084
202168º1,98221121152321084
202067º1,98221121152321084
201967º1,98221121152321084
201865º1,98221121152321084
201758º1,98221021152321083
201656º1,98221021152321083
201450º1,98221021152321083
201348º1,98221021152421084
201248º1,98221021152421084
201138º1,98221021152441086
Australia - Global Right to Information Rating
Australia - Global Right to Information Rating
Reproduced with permission from the Global RTI Rating, a joint project of the Centre for Law and Democracy and Access Info Europe. The Global RTI Rating database is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0).