Attorney General Dreyfus looks to spend tens of thousands more of taxpayers’ dollars to appeal a Full Federal Court decision that denied the right of ministers to shred politically sensitive documents as they leave office.
The complaint illustrates how the commission can be used by politicians to attack each other — one of the main concerns raised by sceptics before it was created by the Federal Labor Government.
The statue, tipped to cost over $100,000 of taxpayer money, is an insult to the many Victorians still grappling with the consequences of his leadership.
