{"id":686793,"date":"2026-05-22T06:52:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:52:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686793\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T06:52:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T06:52:11","slug":"our-foi-system-is-broken-just-the-way-government-likes-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/686793\/","title":{"rendered":"Our FOI system is broken \u2014 just the way government likes it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The auditor-general can deliver surprises, sometimes even a scandal: political, financial or personal.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Political? Think the \u201csports rorts\u201d performance audit, which revealed Senator Bridget McKenzie had overridden Sports Australia\u2019s selection for sports facility grants, directing the grants toward marginal or politically targeted electorates, leading to her quitting the frontbench.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Financial? Think the \u201cLeppington Triangle\u201d performance audit into the purchase of Leppington Triangle land in Bringelly, NSW, designated for a potential second runway at the Western Sydney Airport, which showed the Australian government had paid $30 million for land valued at $3 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The auditor-general can deliver surprises, sometimes even a scandal: political, financial or personal. Political? Think the \u201csports rorts\u201d&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":686794,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2324,138098,80062,80061,43,44,330862,73499,41,39,42,40,80063],"class_list":["post-686793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-anthony-albanese","tag-auditor-general","tag-foi","tag-freedom-of-information","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-oaic","tag-rex-patrick","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-transparency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=686793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/686793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/686794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=686793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=686793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=686793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}