Rex Patrick started his combat for entry to nationwide cupboard papers through the Morrison authorities. It continues with the Albanese authorities.
Former impartial senator Rex Patrick says Australia’s damaged freedom of data system desperately wants reform as his quest for entry to nationwide cupboard papers deepens.
In August 2021, the previous Senate crossbencher efficiently argued that the exemption offered by cupboard confidentiality beneath the Freedom of Info Act doesn’t prolong to the prime minister’s nationwide cupboard conferences with state and territory leaders.
Patrick says the landmark determination by Justice Richard White within the Administrative Appeals Tribunal (AAT) — described by Labor on the time as a “devastating” blow to the Morrison authorities’s try to “keep away from transparency” — ought to have “opened the bolt” to data and details about nationwide cupboard.
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