The Age · Politics / Federal

‘Good riddance to that rubbish’: Labor abandons friendless FOI reforms

· By Nick Newling
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Labor has abandoned its push to restrict access to government documents in a rare defeat that came at the hands of an increasingly emboldened Coalition and crossbench, who have repeatedly teamed up in the Senate to block the government in the name of transparency.

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