Australia · States & Territories

Every Australian state and territory access regime, in one platform

AccessPoint ships all eight state and territory access laws — GIPA, RTI, and the FOI and Information Acts — and configures the right clock, exemptions, fees, and regulator for each, inside your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

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Australia — States & Territories at a glance

Response deadline
Varies by jurisdiction — roughly 20 working days to 45 days
Extensions
Per each Act — consultation, complex-request, and agreed extensions
Fees
Vary by state — from no application fee (ACT, NT) to about $30–$60, often indexed; personal-information requests frequently free
State privacy
Most regimes pair access with a state privacy law (NSW, Vic, Qld, Tas, ACT, NT)
Oversight
Each state and territory's own information commissioner or ombudsman
Coverage
One pack, eight state and territory regimes, configured per jurisdiction

Built for Australia — States & Territories

One platform for the whole access-and-privacy mandate, pre-configured for this regime and running in your own Microsoft 365 tenant.

Eight regimes, one pack

One configuration covers NSW GIPA, Victorian FOI, Queensland RTI, and the WA, SA, Tasmanian, ACT, and Northern Territory access regimes — each with its own statutory clock, exemptions, fees, and external-review body.

Request lifecycle per state

Intake to decision on the right statutory clock for each jurisdiction — 20 working days in NSW, 25 business days in Queensland, 45 in WA — with that regime's exemptions, charge rules, and review-ready records, all built on Microsoft 365.

The right clock, every time

Each Act's day-basis — working days, business days, or calendar days — over each state's public-holiday calendar drives due dates automatically, so a NSW clock and a WA clock are never confused.

State privacy and breach schemes

Most of these jurisdictions pair access with a state privacy regime, and Queensland's mandatory data-breach notification scheme began on 1 July 2025. Run those data-subject requests, assessments, and breach notifications on the same platform.

Reviews to the right regulator

Track external reviews to the correct body for each state — an information commissioner or an ombudsman — with its own filing window, investigation workspace, and disposition path.

In your own tenant

Every request, assessment, and record stays inside your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant — no third-party cloud, no cross-border transfers, no per-user fees.

Eight regimes, one platform

Eight state and territory access regimes. One platform, configured for each.

Australia has no single state access law. New South Wales runs GIPA, Victoria and Western Australia run their own FOI Acts, Queensland runs RTI, and South Australia, Tasmania, the ACT, and the Northern Territory each run their own — with different clocks, different fees, different exemptions, and different regulators. Agencies that operate across borders, and providers that serve several states, end up juggling as many systems as jurisdictions. AccessPoint ships all eight in one pack and configures the correct regime per tenant, so the same platform runs a New South Wales request and a Tasmanian one without a second system.

Eight regimes NSW, VIC, QLD, WA, SA, TAS, ACT, and NT in one pack.
The right clock Each Act's day-basis and holiday calendar, applied automatically.
Access and privacy State privacy requests and breach schemes where they apply.

Configured out of the box

Installing the au-state-foi configuration pack seeds your tenant with everything this regime needs — a starting point you can adjust, not a lock-in.

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  • Eight state and territory access Acts as the legal-authority spine, selectable per tenant
  • Per-jurisdiction statutory-holiday calendars and due-date rules (working, business, and calendar days)
  • Each regime's exemption catalogue, colour-coded for redaction
  • Per-state extension reasons with citations and limits
  • Each jurisdiction's requestor fee categories and fee schedule
  • The right external-review body per state — information commissioner or ombudsman — with grounds and dispositions
  • State privacy and mandatory data-breach notification rules where they apply, including Queensland's 2025 scheme
  • Per-jurisdiction correspondence templates with statutory wording

Australia — States & Territories Questions

Which Australian states and territories does this pack cover?
All eight — New South Wales (GIPA Act 2009), Victoria (FOI Act 1982), Queensland (RTI Act 2009), Western Australia (FOI Act 1992), South Australia (FOI Act 1991), Tasmania (RTI Act 2009), the ACT (FOI Act 2016), and the Northern Territory (Information Act 2002). Each is configured with its own clock, exemptions, fees, and external-review body.

How does it handle the different deadlines and fees?
Each Act runs on its own day-basis — working days in NSW, business days in Queensland, calendar days elsewhere — over that state's public-holiday calendar, so due dates are always computed for the right jurisdiction. Fees follow each state's schedule, from no application fee in the ACT and the Northern Territory to the indexed fees charged elsewhere, with personal-information requests frequently free.

Does it cover state privacy and data-breach obligations too?
Where a jurisdiction pairs access with privacy — as most do — AccessPoint runs those data-subject requests, assessments, and breach notifications on the same platform, including Queensland's mandatory data-breach notification scheme that began on 1 July 2025.

Where does the data reside?
Entirely within your own Microsoft 365 and Azure tenant. Requests, documents, assessments, and audit history never leave your control — no third-party cloud and no cross-border data transfers.

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