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Disclosure failures a mistake, Australian online-safety watchdog reveals

( June 10, 2025, 08:15 GMT | Official Statement) -- MLex Summary: The head of Australia’s online-safety watchdog’s failure to disclose her attendance at a secretive, all-expenses-paid tech-policy and strategy retreat funded by an anti-platform campaigner was due to an administrative error linked to the absence of a staff member. In correspondence obtained by MLex under Australian freedom-of-information laws, the office of eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant revealed that due to a “gap in admin staffing in the commissioner’s office,” the hospitality offered by the Minderoo Foundation wasn’t declared in 2024, as required by law. Minderoo is a foundation owned by Australian billionaire Andrew Forrest.The bundle of documents released to MLex under FOI laws is attached....

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