The Australian Grand Prix Corporation is going to VCAT to fight an order to reveal how it counts crowds for its Melbourne showpiece.
The Australian Grand Prix Corporation is going to VCAT to fight an order to reveal how it counts crowds for its Melbourne showpiece following a freedom-of-information ruling that disclosure was important for “transparency and accountability”.four-day crowd figure for this year’s race of more than 440,000Fans scale a fence and enter the track at Albert Park after this year’s Australian Formula 1 Grand Prix.
A third approach to the AGPC in October last year was rejected in December. The corporation’s information officer, Dale Nardella, said the crowd counting process was “sensitive”. “The level of public funds invested in the commercial enterprise run by the AGPC is significant,” Nardella wrote. SAP then took the issue up with the Office of the Victorian Information Commissioner, which was formed in 2017. Last month, the OVIC ordered that the information be made available.“I do not accept the … that the level of public funding provided to the [AGPC] is an argument in favour of non-disclosure,” wrote public access deputy commissioner Joanne Kummrow.
Kummrow also said it did not matter that SAP was applying for documents it was twice previously denied because the details in them will have changed.
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