Greens in court bid to access secret myki documents
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A lawyer for an elderly person seeking to access secret myki documents has said that he will not have the legal right to access the documents until it is confirmed the documents are genuine.
Key points: Lawyer for Australian Greens wants to know if documents are genuine or bogus
Ms Gillard says she has had requests from her constituents for documents
Ms Gillard to raise concerns with Mr Joyce “in the near future”
Keenan Stirling said the Government needed to ensure the public and Parliament were informed.
“There has been a request by an elderly person from Canberra for some of the documents,” he told Lateline.
“We’ve had an elderly person who has been in my office since 1977 seeking to access all of my documents.
대전 출장 안마“I have advised the office of the Attorney-General that we need to review our process, and that we need to be sure that if these documents are genuine they can be read, that we can have the proper process in place.”
A government spokesperson has said the request from Mr Joyce was “unprecedented”.
“The일산안마 request is unusual. I’ve never heard of a request for information such as this in any other Parliament,” the spokesman said.
“Mr Joyce has never contacted us on this matter, and neither of us has contacted the office of the Attorney-General, and we will deal with this on our own.”
Mr Stirling said he knew of a number of elderly people in Canberra who were seeking access to the secret files.
He said these were also “no-shows” at the House of Re평택출장마사지presentatives, and were likely to be interested in finding out more from Ms Gillard.
“In the longer term we will be dealing with that,” he said.
Ms Gillard says Government “shouldn’t use a power not needed”.
She wants Mr Joyce to explain how he obtained the documents
Earlier, Government spokesperson for Employment Minister Peter Dutton, James Groom, told Lateline that it was wrong for the Government to be asking people for documents that were not genuine.
He said Mr Joyce was still working in the Prime Minister’s Office.
“He is under the supervision of a parliamentary secretary,” Mr Groom said.
“In that regard I don’t think any one has seen anything that could be viewed as a breach of the Official Information Act.”
He said there had been some suggestions that the reques