The protection the law provides to confidential information depends on whether the information is private or public sector information. Confidential information in the private sector will generally be protected if disclosure would be detrimental to the owner of the information. In contrast, confidential information in the public sector generally will not be protected unless the relevant government party can establish that disclosure is likely to injure the public interest. However, if the government party in a Partnerships Victoria project receives information from the private party, and the government party has a contractual obligation to keep that information confidential (for example, the information is 'commercial in confidence'), the government party must comply with that obligation unless it is subject to an overriding disclosure obligation.