Spatial science news from the School of Urban Development, QUT April, 2010

EDM calibration/comparison at Coombabah,Gold Coast; Survey Staffer wins Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund Award; Focus on Surveying Service Teaching; Flexible Spatial Science Minor units; Reminder: Staff and Laboratories moving end of April.

Transparent, balanced and vigorous: The exercise of the Australian Privacy Commissioner's powers in relation to National Privacy Principle 4

This thesis considers whether the Australian Privacy Commissioner's use of its powers supports compliance with the requirement to 'take reasonable steps' to protect personal information in National Privacy Principle 4 of the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth). Two unique lenses were used. First, the Commissioner's use of powers was assessed against the principles of transparency, balance and vigorousness and secondly against alignment with an industry practice approach to securing information. Following a comprehensive review of publicly available materials, interviews and investigation file records, this thesis found that the Commissioner's use of his powers has not been transparent, balanced or vigorous, nor has it been supportive of an industry practice approach to securing data. Accordingly, it concludes that the Privacy Commissioner's use of its regulatory powers is unlikely to result in any significant improvement to the security of personal information held by organisations in Australia.

Educational fund : speech of Hon. Justin S. Morrill, of Vermont, in the Senate of the United States, April 26, 1876.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Dairy and Food Commissioner to the Governor for the two years ended ..

Title varies slightly.

Biennial report of the Commissioner of Public Lands and Buildings to the Governor of the State of Nebraska.

Description based on: 3rd (1880/82)

Annual report of the Storrs School Agricultural Experiment Station, Storrs, Conn.

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the Commissioner

Mode of access: Internet.

Report of the State Superintendent of Public Schools of the State of Maine for the school year ending ..

Description based on: 1896/97.

Report of the Tax Commissioner for biennial period ... to His Excellency, the Governor ..

Title varies slightly.

Connecticut's Naval office at New London during the war of the American revolution, including the mercantile letter book of Nathaniel Shaw, jr.,

Includes documents, letters and manuscripts, part of the "Shaw collection", now in the possession of the New London county historical society.

Annual report of the insurance commissioner.

Title varies slightly.

Report of the Bank Commissioners of the State of Connecticut.

Beginning with report for 1878 (and occasionally in previous years), each report contains a compilation of the laws relative to banks, savings banks, trust and investment companies and building and loan associations. Cf. Bowker, State publicaions, pt. 1, p. 74.