- 5 year battle.
- ~$400,000 in taxpayer funds wasted in legal fees.
- Liberal, National, and Labor in anti-transparency unity ticket.
- Minister Bridget McKenzie acted beyond her powers.
- Rex Patrick is a bloody legend.
- We now have it confirmed a Governments documents may not be shredded, and do in fact belong to the Nation and not the Ministers. That is until they find a loophole.
The normal argument against this case is that all records of communications being a matter for public record could have a chilling effect on the frank and fearless advice Ministers may be willing to provide.
My answer to that argument is:
If your not willing to stand by the reasons you had for providing advice in the past, then the advice was baseless then, and is undefendable now. Even if you’re mind has changed on the advice, you should still be able to quantify legitimate reasons for the advice given then.
Wasn’t Dutton the deputy whilst this was good going on? Hope that comes up around election time.
Maybe the Teals or Greens will be able to make something of it. Or that Marroon candidate thats running against Dutton in his electorate. Be a bit hard for Labor to say much after they’ve run protection this whole term.
