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Josh Taylor

The prime minister’s department, which bears responsibility for processing freedom of information requests sent to the prime minister’s office has had a complaint against the department upheld over its handling of an FOI into the then-prime minister Scott Morrison’s text messages around the bushfires at the end of 2019.

At the time, Morrison was on holiday in Hawaii, and once his holiday had been revealed, he defended the trip by saying he was receiving updates on…