We have a right to know what Lord Jabba got up to on Tatooine:
Nationals MP George Christensen made a secret submission to the information watchdog as part of an effort to block the release of details about a police probe into his Philippines travel, days after saying the document falsely accused him of a serious crime.
The Nationals MP has spent two years fighting to prevent the public release of a letter sent by the Australian Federal Police to former Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton.
For two years Nine News, The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald have been trying, under Freedom of Information laws, to access the document sent on June 25, 2018.
In the letter, the Australian Federal Police advised it was closing the case into Mr Christensen, but warned the Queensland MP remained an ongoing risk of being compromised, according to sources who have seen the letter.
“I am not happy with documents that basically falsely accuse me of a serious crime being made public because therefore people will get to then report what you are falsely accused of and that’s just wrong for anyone,” Mr Christensen said in a story published in this masthead on October 21.
Eight days later he made his third “in confidence” submission to the Office of the Information Commissioner.
Well, release the letter to be exonerated then.
This goes to national security, the integrity of parliament and ongoing allegations of sleaze wherever the Morrison Government treads.
