Re:I bought used voting machines on eBay for $100 apiece (2018)
by peterkelly on Sunday October 27, 2019 @05:53AM
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In 2017 someone in Canberra bought a couple of used filing cabinets from a second hand store for $10 each.
They turned out to contain hundreds of highly classified documents detailing years of cabinet discussions of successive Australian governments ("cabinet" here meaning the core group of senior ministers). This probably happened because the (filing) cabinets were locked and no-one could find the keys, so someone at parliament house got lazy and didn't dispose of them properly.
The documents were handed over to journalists and the whole saga became known as "the cabinet files".
They turned out to contain hundreds of highly classified documents detailing years of cabinet discussions of successive Australian governments ("cabinet" here meaning the core group of senior ministers). This probably happened because the (filing) cabinets were locked and no-one could find the keys, so someone at parliament house got lazy and didn't dispose of them properly.
The documents were handed over to journalists and the whole saga became known as "the cabinet files".
https://www.abc.net.au/news/about/backstory/news-coverage/20...