Groundhog day for the Maugean Skate. What’s the scam?

The decreasing population of Maugan skate has become the last victim of unnecessary government privacy. What is scam?

Fraud, Climate Change, Energy, Environment and Water Department (DCCEEW) continues to fight the taxpayer against transparency at great cost.

In February this year, the Administrative Investigation Court (Court) decided to give Dcceew a short information about Maugan Skate.

A DCCEEW official claimed that the document should not be published:

“To contain[ed] Recommendations and recommendations to the minister on re -evaluation requests that are currently taken into consideration by the Minister. These documents include weighing the options that may have an impact on the action of the government by the Minister and the department. EPBC 2012/6406 re -evaluation of the recommendation decision is an existing and ongoing negotiation process. “

After the money of more than $ 50,000 taxpayers’ money was spent, these allegations were rejected by the court.

This is almost a scam, but a Groundhog day turns into fraud.

In April, after asking Dcceew to submit a final decision summary about Maugan Skate, they rejected access to the re -accessing by claiming that the document should not be published:

“… to contain[ed] Macquarie Harbor, Tazmanya, EPBC 2012/6406 in the reassessment of the expansion of the expansion of the maritime farming to the minister on the re -evaluation of the minister. The documents include weighing the Minister’s options to help the decision -making process that is still subject to current and ongoing deliberate processes. “

Yesterday, the Information Commissioner decided to allow the issue to be heard in court. With Australian Institute I loan a hand with an application fee of $ 1.148, and I returned to try to defend the indisputable one to wait for Dcceew to be included in the lawyers financed by the taxpayer.

A gain for transparency, a blow to privacy, a loss for Maugan skate