Senator Rex Patrick is your typical independent Senate crossbench ambulance chaser. Having been carried into parliament on the long-receded Nick Xenophon tide, he is driven to prove his usefulness as a tribune of the people, purple-prosed press releases and all.
But in taking on the Morrison government over the confidentiality of National Cabinet records, the soon to be ex-senator has done us all a worthwhile service.
Patrick sought access to National Cabinet documents under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
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