Albanese said the experts told him not to hold a royal commission. Turns out there’s no record they ever did.
For three weeks after Bondi, the PM knocked back a royal commission. His excuse? Security “experts” had advised against one.
Then someone went looking.
Freedom of Information showed Home Affairs and the Attorney-General’s Department, the two departments that would give that advice, held no documents recommending against a royal commission. Home Affairs put it in writing: “No documents were in the possession of the Department.”
Sussan Ley got her own security briefing. She said the same, no evidence the agencies ever advised against it. She called it hiding behind national security as a political shield.
And here’s the kicker. There’s a brief written on 16 December, two days after the massacre, laying out inquiry options. The government won’t release it. Their reason? It “was not progressed.”
So the one document from the moment it mattered stays locked in a drawer.
You don’t hide the paperwork when the paperwork clears you.
He resisted. He got dragged into it. And he’s still sitting on a file he won’t let you read.
What’s in the brief they won’t release, Albanese?
Cold Hard Facts, Corrected When Wrong. – from Peter Lyndon James. WA
