Further to a development we brought you on April 11, aggrieved members of CPA Australia have had a response to their request (based on a clause in the Corporations Act) for a full contact list of their fellow members.

CPA's Southbank HQ accepted $2,351 from CPA Brett Stevenson for the administrative costs to prepare the list (also required by the Act) and then duly delivered it. But in perfect accordance with its usual behaviour – utter, minimum disclosure – Alex Malley's company secretary Adam Awty excluded email addresses from the spreadsheet. That's despite the fact CPA's headquarters ordinarily, primarily communicates with its members by email. Is CPA withholding the individual particulars of the contact method we all principally use so as to comply with privacy laws?