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Transparency is the cornerstone of democratic governance, yet Australia’s federal executive continues to undermine it through increasing non-compliance with Senate orders for documents.

New data reveals a precipitous fall in compliance from 92% in the 1993-96 Parliament to a mere 33% currently. This decline coincides with a troubling rise in unilateral claims of Public Interest Immunity (PII), where the executive withholds information without independent oversight, potentially obscuring misconduct or politically sensitive issues.

Alarmingly, under the Albanese Government, PII claims occur weekly—three times the frequency of the Morrison Government. This paper argues that such unilateral PII claims are incompatible with responsible governance, significantly hampering Parliament’s ability to perform critical oversight.

The Centre for Public Integrity recommends establishing an Independent Legal Arbiter within Senate Standing Orders, empowering impartial review of privilege claims and deterring unwarranted secrecy.

For an in-depth analysis and detailed reform proposals, read below:

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12 thought on “Australia’s federal executive still shrouded in secrecy”
  1. This country has so many problems it is getting beyond hope. If all the administrators were worth anything at all there would be extraction royalties going to pay off the fake debt. Instead the administrators become another useless burden on the productive class. Now it turns out they are officially lying 2/3 of the time. The ALP’s “stoopids management” is very effective.

  2. These criminals are not the government of the commonwealth. They are traitors that should be rounded up and shot at dawn. Albanese is a statement. His handlers are telling us they can do what they want. Why else would they produce such a moron as the masquerade? The senate should shut down parliament immediately and appeal to the high court to dissolve the corporations masquerading as our government. Then the trials!

  3. Unlawfully elected pretend government acting unlawfully … this has been the standard for almost 125 years, and all pretend elected politicians fall in line or else ….
    The Australian Underground part of the One World Government is running Australia into the ground from underground settlements/cities like in Melbourne and Pine Gap, and those puppets on the surface can do nothing but comply.
    If you really want change, then the basis for that is not physical, but spiritual.
    Australia was initially a Westminster country that worshipped both God and Freemasonry.
    Now we only worship Freemasonry, the Devil.
    Only God can fix our situation because it is soo deeply ingrained and expansive that a few good doers can get nowhere.
    So it is up to you … either get with God and His great angel force ….. or just give up completely.
    He gave us the Holy Spirit to empower us to be successful, but the ‘church’ killed that idea off.

  4. A simple remedy would be stop taxation and usury by shutting down the private reserve bank of Oz. Nationalise the stuff dug up exported, sharing the common wealth. These acts will restore fair go in an instant, but who’s willing to do the obvious to save this place?

  5. Given that there are 2 jurisdictions and what the public sees and is privy to is merely the legal jurisdiction, where what passes as ‘government’ is merely a private corporation (and you ain’t the beneficiary/shareholder), then all is as it should be.
    As peons of the corporation you have very few ‘rights’ which the corporation granted and can take away as it pleases.

    The people have elected to ‘exist’ in the fictional world of the corporate jurisdiction rather than claim their birthright standing in the original/equitable jurisdiction.

  6. Is this the worst financial fraud in Australian history – Dr Anthony Schmulow full interview

  7. Pedophilia is the Achilles heel and glue that binds all political traitors together globally. Our PM leads the gay parade, every year in Paddington. We switch on the idiot box, the programmers also part of the same club, compromised reading the Doherty script.
    There are some good people there, but sidelined by the lobby which controls Oz with an iron fist keeping a lid on the can of worms from overflowing. Laws are changed as we text, criticism of the freak show a threat to national security along with mercenary wars over the seas supposedly defending Oz.
    Reality is, innocents are slaughtered at our expense(taxation) as traitors, on all bases loaded, fly around the globe receiving the “good news” on how to enforce order with chaos. Anyway, as groomed idiots come and go (how many pm’s have we had this century?), the nomenklatura stays the same in every nation ruled by the lobby. It is krown kabal komunizm shrouded with secrecy in every masonic hall, in every suburb, east west north south.

  8. There is no Democrazy in Australia, get over it. 2PP destryed all hope of democratic process.

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