If emails between the offices of the Prime Minister and Communications Minister became public it could harm their working relationship 'now and into the future', a legal notice states.
If emails between the offices of the Prime Minister and Communications Minister became public it could harm their working relationship "now and into the future", a legal notice has stated.
The ABC sought internal emails about a July 22 media release spruiking the $10 million Federal Government grant intended to boost broadcast coverage of under-represented sports., pays the sports channel to broadcast sports under-represented on television. Of the 67 pages released, 19 pages are completely blanked out, most of them exempted for the reason they would reveal "trade secrets" or "information having a commercial value". A further 16 pages are press releases or drafts.
Reasons against disclosure included that it could reveal "opinion, advice or recommendations" from early deliberations, and "disclosure could reasonably be expected to have a detrimental effect on the working relationship between the minister's office and the Prime Minister's office, now and into the future".
"These lines are fine," Communications Minister Paul Fletcher emailed on the day of the release, after being asked how to respond to three separate inquiries about the grant.Foxtel chief executive Patrick Delany emailed the minister directly to thank him for his support. Two days later, as public fury about the grant lit up social media, talkback radio lines and reception desks at electorate offices, an unnamed member of the minister's office asked the boss if they could distribute a Q&A document to colleagues.
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