Sentence examples for commonwealth information from inspiring English sources

"The statutory offence relates to a commonwealth officer disclosing commonwealth information without authorisation," a spokesman told Guardian Australia.

A spokesman for the AFP said: "The AFP's primary responsibility in this matter was to identify alleged criminality regarding the unauthorised disclosure of Commonwealth information".

"This offence specifically criminalises the activity of commonwealth officials who have released commonwealth information in contravention of their obligations, not journalists".

Usually the only time information is revealed is in the course of criminal proceedings – such as in the case of Allan Kessing, a customs officer who was prosecuted for disclosing commonwealth information about Sydney airport security procedures.

Almost every referral made to the AFP by federal government agencies for "unauthorised disclosure of commonwealth information" in the past 18 months has been directly related to journalists reporting on asylum seekers and immigration.

Almost every referral made to the AFP by federal government agencies "for unauthorised disclosure of commonwealth information" since the Coalition took office in September 2013 has been directly related to immigration reporting by journalists.

The government in Colombo rejects all these allegations, a denial repeated to me in a BBC interview by the country's minister of mass media and information, as Commonwealth leaders arrived in the country.

Information Privacy Principle (IPP) 2 under the Privacy Act 1988 (Commonwealth) provides that personal information should not be used or disclosed for any purpose other than the primary purpose of the collection.

Police are investigating a suspected breach of section 70 of the Crimes Act, concerning "disclosure of information by commonwealth officers".

They suggest that this is because non-Commonwealth migrants bring new information to UK economic actors, reducing the costs of trade, whereas UK-Commonwealth trade patterns are already well established.

Among a number of issues, the case is testing the meaning of "security of the commonwealth" in the Freedom of Information Act, which the Department of Immigration and Border Protection appealed to in order to keep the documents secret.