AUSTRALIA'S freedom of information law has been ranked 39th among 89 countries in the first study comparing the adequacy of laws designed to open up the workings of government.

The 30-year-old Commonwealth Freedom of Information Act, which was radically overhauled in 2009 and 2010, scored 85 out of a possible 150 points in a joint European and Canadian study that assessed 61 indicators for each country's law.

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