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An employee has been denied access to an email in which a colleague expressed personal opinions about him, after a commissioner found full disclosure could compromise the colleague's privacy and reputation.

In mid-2019, the Civil Aviation and Safety Authority (CASA) employee applied for access to emails between certain inspectors in a particular region, and was later given two relevant documents, one of which contained a redacted sentence.

The redacted sentence was part of an email between the employee's manager and another CASA officer, who expressed concerns about the employee's ability to work with others...