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Change in decision outcomes

The national share of decisions granted in full or in part for each financial year, and the agencies whose refusal rate moved most between the two latest complete years. Only agencies that decided enough requests for a rate to mean anything are ranked; the note under the table gives the threshold and the number of agencies that met it.

% of decisions granted in full or part, by FY

basis: financial year

Source: data.gov.au FOI statistics workbooks, FY2019-20 – FY2025-26 (Q1–Q3 cumulative)

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Refusal-rate movers

basis: financial year

Agency2023-24 rate2023-24 decisions2024-25 rate2024-25 decisionsChange (pp)
Office of the eSafety Commissioner52.2%6984.9%457+32.7 pp
Prime Minister75.6%4559.6%47-16.0 pp
NDIS Quality and Safeguards Commission20.9%9136.8%144+15.9 pp
Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water39.9%18824.4%316-15.5 pp
Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade38.9%31624.8%432-14.2 pp
Australian Electoral Commission33.3%10247.2%89+13.9 pp
Australian Broadcasting Corporation34.1%4147.8%90+13.6 pp
Australian Public Service Commission51.6%6438.1%42-13.5 pp
Office of the Official Secretary to the Governor-General95.8%4882.5%40-13.3 pp
Federal Court of Australia70.8%4857.9%38-12.9 pp

Top 10 of 53 agencies with at least 30 decisions in both years. Change is in percentage points (the difference between the two rates), not per cent. The filters apply to the chart above; this ranking is drawn from every qualifying agency nationally and does not change with a filter selection.

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