A decision to refuse a document from public disclosure is being questioned after an unredacted version was accidentally sent to the ABC and revealed prison staff’s concerns about managing youth detainees.
Recent figures show most decisions about disclosure in Tasmania are set aside or changed if they reach the external review phase — as has happened in at least 80 per cent of cases for the past two years as Madeleine Rojahn reports.
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