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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
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Krishani Dhanji

Labor’s proposed FoI clampdown ‘ripe’ for high court challenge, legal expert says

The attorney general Michelle Rowland has proposed freedom of information law changes. Seen here speaking in the lower house
The attorney general Michelle Rowland has proposed freedom of information law changes that may be challenged in the high court. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

A proposed move by the federal government to keep more official documents secret could fall foul of the constitution, a legal expert says.

According to Luke Beck, a Monash university professor of constitutional law, the Labor government’s disproportionate restriction of access to documents prepared for government ministers may contradict an implied freedom of political communication.

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