Australia politics live: super fund sends ‘hands off’ message to government; Marles says army joining search for Dezi Freeman

AustralianSuper chief executive says government directing investment would be a ‘disaster’. Follow today’s news liveGet our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcastThe government is being forced to justify and defend its announcement that freedom of information requests will be charged. The opposition has already called it a “truth tax” and hammered Labor for talking a big game on transparency.Attorney-general Michelle Rowland is on ABC AM, says there’s not a stakeholder who will say that the FoI regime is “working as it should” – because requests can be made anonymously, and she claims there are vexatious or frivolous requests that are trying up “scarce government resources”.I would point out that there is currently a charging regime in the Freedom of Information Act, and every state and territory bar the ACT actually imposes a modest application fee of somewhere between $30 and the mid-50s.This sickness has to be it has to be removed. We need to de-radicalise de-escalate, work together as a society to tackle something that I’m seeing as a troubling trend, an escalation in political violence.We also know that by bringing in a million migrants over the first two years of this government, with no plan to house them, or to put the infrastructure in place to support them…I speak to Australians who can’t find homes, who are taking three times as long for their commute to work, who see the pressure on infrastructure all around them every day. And they want to know that we do have balanced migration program. It’s been rushed and chaotic. Continue reading...

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