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Would you assert that if our Airships are asked direct questions by a specific arm of the government they should tell them what they want to hear, rather than the truth. Surely the ACM was well within his brief to answer as he did, no? The leak was likely to have come from another arm of government chasing their own agenda. I agree in that publicly bleating does no one any favours but in this case that's not what happened.
The PMs ire should be directed at his civil servants for whom the OSA is a luxury, not a necessity. The ACM deserves a full public apology.