{"id":701206,"date":"2026-05-29T01:41:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701206\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T01:41:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T01:41:17","slug":"federal-politics-live-updates-opposition-leader-doubles-down-on-calling-prime-minister-arrogant-prick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/701206\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal politics LIVE updates: Opposition leader doubles down on calling Prime Minister &#8216;arrogant prick&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Labor has been defending making a public interest immunity claim for cabinet documents on counterterrorism funding ahead of the Bondi attack in December, as revealed by ASIO boss Mike Burgess in the Antisemitism Royal Commission.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The government is allowed to claim immunity from requests or orders by a court or parliament to produce documents on the grounds it would be prejudicial to the public interest.  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>Environment Minister Murray Watt said it is a longstanding convention that governments are allowed to claim public interest immunity but added the royal commissioner is allowed to reject the claim if necessary.&#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What we have done is provide a range of documents to the royal commission, some of which are redacted to remove cabinet references and other national security information,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/prod.static9.net.au\/fs\/b487e064-4fba-460f-b8f4-c47bc377d0b6.jpeg\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>&#13;&#8221;But the royal commissioner is totally within her rights to reject the public interest immunity claim that the government has made.&#8221;&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Earlier today, Attorney-General Michelle Rowland made similar comments and said the government&#8217;s action was not &#8220;novel&#8221;.  &#13;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a well-established legal principle that cabinet documents and information of that nature attract public interest immunity in legal proceedings and royal commissions but it&#8217;s important also to note that decisions about whether to disclose cabinet information are ultimately a matter for the commissioner,&#8221; she told the ABC.&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Labor has been defending making a public interest immunity claim for cabinet documents on counterterrorism funding ahead of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":701207,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-701206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701206","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=701206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/701206\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/701207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=701206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=701206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=701206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}