{"id":33854,"date":"2025-07-24T20:54:32","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:54:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/?p=33854"},"modified":"2025-07-24T20:54:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T10:54:32","slug":"greens-demand-greater-transparency-after-albanese-government-ranked-among-worst-on-document-releases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/greens-demand-greater-transparency-after-albanese-government-ranked-among-worst-on-document-releases\/","title":{"rendered":"Greens demand greater transparency after Albanese Government ranked among worst on document releases"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Damning new&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/publicintegrity.org.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/Still-Shrouded-in-Secrecy-1-1.pdf?utm_source=Journalists&amp;utm_campaign=d90e9eac33-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2024_11_11_12_20_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_-7740fd867f-\"><u>research<\/u><\/a>&nbsp;from the Centre for Public Integrity has revealed that the Albanese Government is worse than the Morrison Government when it comes to refusing Senate Orders for the Production of Documents &#8211; critical tools used by the Senate to scrutinise government decisions.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Albanese Government\u2019s compliance rate in the 47th Parliament was just 32.8 per cent, the second-worst performance of any federal Parliament since 1993.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Australian Greens spokesperson for democracy, Senator Steph Hodgins-May:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis research confirms what Australians already suspect: the Albanese Government is hiding critical decisions from the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThese document requests aren&#8217;t just political theatre, they&#8217;re about exposing how decisions are made, who influences them and whether the public interest is being served.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFrom fossil fuel approvals to billion-dollar contracts, the public has a right to know whose interests are being served, and the Senate has a right to perform its job as a house of review.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cLabor\u2019s track record is worse than even the Morrison Government &#8211; less than a third of document orders have been fulfilled. That\u2019s not transparency, that\u2019s secrecy. And the question every Australian should be asking is, what are they hiding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhen governments dodge scrutiny, it\u2019s usually because powerful corporate lobbies &#8211; like the fossil fuel industry &#8211; are pulling the strings. If Labor wants to govern for people, not profits, it needs to open its books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cOur vision is simple: a democracy where the government works for the public, not powerful donors. Where decisions are made in daylight, not darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Damning new&nbsp;research&nbsp;from the Centre for Public Integrity has revealed that the Albanese Government is worse than the Morrison Government when it comes to refusing Senate Orders for the Production of Documents &#8211; critical tools used by the Senate to scrutinise government decisions.&nbsp; The Albanese Government\u2019s compliance rate in the 47th Parliament was just 32.8 per &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/2025\/07\/24\/greens-demand-greater-transparency-after-albanese-government-ranked-among-worst-on-document-releases\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Greens demand greater transparency after Albanese Government ranked among worst on document releases&#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-33854","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\/33854","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=33854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33855,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33854\/revisions\/33855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.16news.com.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}