Morrison government loses fight for national cabinet secrecy
- Written by Michelle Grattan, Professorial Fellow, University of Canberra
The Morrison government has been dealt a blow with the Administrative Appeals Tribunal ruling national cabinet is not a committee of federal cabinet and therefore is not covered by cabinet confidentiality.
This means its documents are accessible under freedom of information legislation. The federal government had argued that, as a cabinet...
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