The national auditor has revealed which agencies have warned they could seek to black out parts of his reports.
The Attorney-General has diminished himself by censoring the government's most important watchdog.
Despite this,the auditor-general said he isn't concerned about a breakout of requests for redactions from audit reports.
A court-issued suppression order hid the identity of a former police officer convicted of horrendous crimes against children,but today that order was lifted.
The document dump gives a fine-grained insight how governments set about covering up their embarrassing decisions. And it's not pretty.
The Age's series on the Secret State yielded hundreds of your stories and comments. Here are a few.
Hundreds of unanswered questions from the parliament,from the opposition and from journalists. Just another day in Spring Street.
Hundreds of Victorian council meetings are being held behind closed doors for all sorts of reasons,and people are getting suspicious.
From a child grooming ring at a school to the simplest request of the zoo,the freedom of information system perpetuates a'culture of secrecy'.
Secrecy in education means parents don't always know how their children are treated and principals aren't always told about policy changes.
Doctors are prevented from speaking out,figures on adverse events are not available,and some suspect waiting list figures are fudged in Victorian hospitals.