{"id":22705,"date":"2023-09-06T06:13:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=22705"},"modified":"2023-09-06T06:13:04","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T06:13:04","slug":"transparency-turbulence-for-labor-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/transparency-turbulence-for-labor-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Transparency turbulence for Labor Government"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Senate has today made clear it\u2019s expectations of greater transparency from the Albanese Labor Government on the use of Special Purpose Aircraft (SPA) flights.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a result of motions moved by the Coalition and The Greens the Albanese Labor Government has been ordered:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>to table information relating to SPA flights to the extent such information can be provided consistent with advice from security agencies;<\/li><li>to table all current and previous versions of the SPA Guidelines provided to officials around the use of SPA flights; and<\/li><li>to provide in confidence to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security (PJCIS) any related advice that informed the changes to the SPA Guidelines.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coalition\u2019s motion means that there will be careful assessment, without breaching or risking security considerations, of the security advice that led to the changes to the SPA Guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This can then determine whether or not this Labor Government has applied it in a fair way or whether there has been gross overreach to use that security advice to avoid transparency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Coalition understands and respects the role our law enforcement and national security agencies play in providing advice to Government.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The PJCIS is well trusted to hold information in confidence, but it will enable scrutiny by the Opposition and indeed by Government backbenchers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For a Prime Minister that lauded promises of a more accountable and transparent government, this chain of events only continues to demonstrate this Labor Government\u2019s rank hypocrisy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate has today made clear it\u2019s expectations of greater transparency from the Albanese Labor Government on the use of Special Purpose Aircraft (SPA) flights. As a result of motions moved by the Coalition and The Greens the Albanese Labor Government has been ordered: to table information relating to SPA flights to the extent such &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2023\/09\/06\/transparency-turbulence-for-labor-government\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Transparency turbulence for Labor Government&#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-22705","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\/22705","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=22705"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22706,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22705\/revisions\/22706"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}