The Abbott Government refuses to release a report on the ABC's funding because it breaches "cabinet

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[QUOTE]The Abbott government has refused to release a report that supported more funding for the ABC, insisting it would breach the cabinet confidentiality of the Howard government.
In stark contrast to its attitude to documents from the former Rudd government, the manager of government business in the Senate, Senator Mitch Fifield, refused to make the report available, saying it disclosed the cabinet deliberations of the Howard government.

''Successive governments and the Parliament have long recognised the public interest in maintaining the confidentiality of such deliberations,'' Senator Fifield has said in a letter to the clerk of the Senate.

The document is a 2006 report by KPMG into the adequacy and efficiency of ABC funding. The ABC has told Fairfax Media it has no objection to the report's release.

The decision to withhold the report was derided by shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus, who described it as ''astonishing''.

''It is unbelievable that this government is prepared to invoke cabinet confidentiality when it involves a former Liberal government, but has handed over cabinet documents from a more recent Labor government,'' he said.

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I wonder how many people are now regretting voting for this moron.

I'm glad I didn't vote for him in the first place

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He's not going to survive the next election.

Right?

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[QUOTE=Whomobile;44144528]He's not going to survive the next election.

Right?[/QUOTE]

Good chance he'll be a huge fuck up and come next election everyone will be crying Labor, but something in me feels like on his 3rd year there's going to be a Liberal leadership spill, but I doubt it

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Every government does this shit, at least it was only with the ABC (That we know of so far) labor did it with something quite important&dangerous, the pink batts scheme and much more. The Howard government did a hell of a lot worse than previous labor government though, the ABC reports are only a minuscule bit of it.

Cabinet Confidentiality is bullshit and abused by every government, so much for transparency.