{"id":13371,"date":"2021-10-14T04:40:30","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=13371"},"modified":"2021-10-14T04:40:30","modified_gmt":"2021-10-14T04:40:30","slug":"future-fund-investments-must-be-subject-to-foi-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/14\/future-fund-investments-must-be-subject-to-foi-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Future Fund investments must be subject to FOI laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has comprehensively failed to make the case for trying to exempt the Future Fund\u2019s investments from Freedom of Information laws.<br \/>\n\u201cWe need far greater scrutiny of the Future Fund\u2019s investment decisions, not less,\u201d Greens Economic Justice Spokesperson Senator McKim said.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is through the Freedom of Information scheme that we learned of the Future Fund\u2019s $3.2 million investment in Adani Ports.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201dThe Government has completely failed to justify this exemption, and it is clearly trying to keep the investments away from public scrutiny.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThe Greens will oppose this legislation and we urge Labor and the crossbench to join us.\u201d<br \/>\n\u201cThis is public money, and the public have a right to know how it is being invested.\u201d<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/senatornickmckim.cmail19.com\/t\/j-l-zltiiyd-ihjkthdkid-r\/\">The Greens\u2019 additional comments on the Investment Funds Legislation Amendment Bill 2021 [Provisions] can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Federal Government has comprehensively failed to make the case for trying to exempt the Future Fund\u2019s investments from Freedom of Information laws. \u201cWe need far greater scrutiny of the Future Fund\u2019s investment decisions, not less,\u201d Greens Economic Justice Spokesperson Senator McKim said. \u201cIt is through the Freedom of Information scheme that we learned of &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2021\/10\/14\/future-fund-investments-must-be-subject-to-foi-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Future Fund investments must be subject to FOI laws&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aussie"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13371\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}