Too hot to handle: climate crisis report so secret Albanese government won’t even reveal date it was completed

Anthony Albanese’s government has rebuffed calls to release an Office of National Intelligence (ONI) report on national security threats to Australia posed by climate change. Photograph: Lukas Coch/AAP

The Australian government is refusing to release its secret report on how the climate crisis will fuel national security threats and is also refusing to say when it was completed.

The government insists the date, too, is classified. The approach has sparked claims of a “cult of secrecy in Canberra”.