Thanks to Opposition leader Sussan Ley, the government’s disgraceful attempt to squeeze the life out of the Freedom of Information Act is as dead as a herring.
In an elegant note in The Canberra Times of 13 October, Ley fillets the government’s attempt to narrow the scope of the FoI Act and says “The Opposition will stand firmly against these changes.” Thus, the Coalition and cross-benchers in the Senate are primed to flush the government’s proposals away.
A deserved defeat for Albanese on freedom of information