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‘Not sustainable’ for robodebt sealed chapter to be secret forever, Bill Shorten says | Royal commission into robodebt | The Guardian

Australian Minister for Government Services Bill Shorten

‘Not sustainable’ for robodebt sealed chapter to be secret forever, Bill Shorten says Australians who received unlawful debt notices want the people who made ‘callous decisions’ to face consequences, government services minister says Get our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcast Paul Karp Chief political correspondent @Paul_Karp Mon 10 Jul 2023 18.34 AEST Last modified on Mon 10 Jul 2023 19.31 AEST Bill Shorten has said it is “not sustainable” for the robodebt royal commission sealed chapter to remain secret forever, as the Greens push for its release within 12 months.

Source: ‘Not sustainable’ for robodebt sealed chapter to be secret forever, Bill Shorten says | Royal commission into robodebt | The Guardian

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Big Tech, weapons, tax havens, even Rupert Murdoch – secrets from the Future Fund investment vault – Michael West

Peter Costello

The secretive Future Fund’s chairman Peter Costello might not like it, but Freedom of Information requests are peeling back the lid on the Fund’s weighty overseas investments. Philip Dorling and Rex Patrick report the more controversial ones.

Source: Big Tech, weapons, tax havens, even Rupert Murdoch – secrets from the Future Fund investment vault – Michael West

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Secretive Scott Morrison and the skeletons in his Cabinet

Recent revelations that former Prime Minister Scott Morrison secretly swore himself in as a co-minister in three portfolios may explain why he stood so firmly in the way of a Federal ICAC.

Secretive Scott Morrison and the skeletons in his Cabinet
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Rex Patrick on Timor spying: Albanese government’s first secret trial after only 67 days – Michael West

Rex Patrick on Timor spying: Albanese government’s first secret trial after only 67 days – Michael West

If you thought the Attorney-General dropping charges against Bernard Collaery was a sign that secret trials in Australian courts and tribunals were a thing of the past, you would be wrong.

Today, in Melbourne, a secret hearing is taking place where the government is trying to prevent the public disclosure of 22-year-old cabinet documents relating to the Howard government’s plans to defraud the newly independent and impoverished nation of Timor-Leste of their oil and gas resources.

January 1 is the biggest day of the year for the National Archives. It’s the day they unveil cabinet papers from 20 years prior. Last year, among the documents named but not released was a year 2000 cabinet submission entitled “Timor Gap Negotiations”.

I put in a request to get access to it. The Archives is an organisation charged with safely storing and making available significant historical government documents. But their response was one of ‘‘sorry, no access’’.

Rex Patrick on Timor spying: Albanese government’s first secret trial after only 67 days – Michael West