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The National Cabinet is a disaster

The PM has created a presidential role for himself

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

14 August 2021

9:00 AM

Well, well, well. Senate crossbencher Rex Patrick won his case in the Administrative Appeals Tribunal. Patrick was seeking the records and minutes related to the meetings of the so-called National Cabinet, a body that the PM invented at the start of the pandemic. Patrick’s Freedom of Information requests were being denied under one of the allowed grounds, namely that what the Senator wanted amounted to an ‘official record of a committee of cabinet’.

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