Closed government … If Albo and the AG cannot defenestrate FOI by legislation, they can do so by starvation … Non-existent evidence used to throttle applications … Attorney General AWOL on big ticket reforms … Polly Peck reports from Canberra

Parliamentary committee reports that go ignored by successive governments … 64% of reports fail to attract a government response … Issues of pressing importance to citizens … Labour in vain … Polly Peck reports from Canberra

Going slow … Attorney General’s dismissive response to Senate committee’s press freedom recommendations … Grubby political precedent … The zone has been flooded with reports on the impact of oppressive secrecy on the media’s ability to report … Hallelujah, arrival of the Secrecy Provisions Amendment (Repealing Offences) Bill … Latest developments from AG HQ in Canberra … Polly Peck reports

Pollies on the public teat … Sponging on the taxpayer tab … Loose arrangements … Self-approval … Bloated entitlements … Attorney General reoffends … Comprehensive table of perks … Polly Peck on the case

Losing the plot … Fearless Murdoch hacks have the egg beaters on full speed … Three-pronged salvo … Campaign Linda …  Feeding the reptiles … Where’s the NoDoze? … Higgins settlement … Reynolds v The Commonwealth … Polly Peck reports

The dumping of Attorney General Mark Dreyfus … Behind the scenes … Bastardry among the brothers … Unfinished business … Family law, privacy … Considerable policy and legislative results … Here’s Michelle Rowland as AG … What are her priors? … Polly Peck reports from the Gallery

UPDATE … Latest round for former senator … Reynolds v The Commonwealth and HWL Ebsworth … Federal Court clears the path for respondents to file applications for summary judgment or to strike out the case … Former minister upset that Mark Dreyfus was cleared by NACC … Ongoing bitterness and grief … From Polly Peck in Canberra

Attorney General wanted INSLM report to be “clarified” … Sheeting the blame … Alleged ambiguity as to which minister was responsible for hiding evidence … Political sensitivities … Change of personnel responsible for monitoring national security laws … Polly Peck reports