Freedom of Information · Australia
FOI Forest
The searchable, centralised archive of Australian FOI releases
Canonical dataset · Updated monthly · Open licence
Downloads
The full FOI Forest dataset is available in three formats. All files use the same schema and represent the same 12,041 entries as of March 2025.
Schema
Each entry contains the following fields:
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
agency |
character | Full agency name |
agency_abbr |
character | Standard abbreviation |
ref |
character | Agency FOI reference number |
decision_date |
date | Date of decision (ISO 8601) |
description |
character | Request description as published |
outcome |
factor | released, refused, partial, withdrawn |
doc_url |
character | Link to released documents, if available |
scrape_date |
date | Date this entry was last verified |
Licence
The dataset is released under CC BY 4.0. The underlying disclosure log content is Commonwealth of Australia copyright; FOI Forest’s contribution is the normalisation, standardisation, and aggregation.
Code
Scraping and parsing scripts are maintained in the project GitHub repository. Pull requests adding new agencies or correcting parsing errors are welcome.