The CCC then asked the High Court toconsider the ruling,said to “severely curtail” the agency and setting a precedent likely to have suppressedat least 32 historical reports.
In a briefing with his parliamentary oversight committee on Thursday,CCC chair Bruce Barbour confirmed the agency had been advised by the court a hearing would be scheduled this year.
The court fields hundreds of applications each year and decided to review an average of about 11.8 per cent of those lodged in the nine years to last May,analysis bylaw firm Clayton Utz found.
But of the applications listed for a hearing in the 2020-21 financial year,more than one-third were later taken up by the court.
Barbour was also quizzed by the bipartisan committee’s LNP chair,Jon Krause,about the Operation Workshop report into claims of interference with the office of the Integrity Commissioner.
Fellow party membershave questioned the report,which was bureaucratically blunt in its rejection of the allegations as “entirely ordinary” and description of phrases used by some media and the opposition as “mischaracterisation”.