In opposition, Tony Abbott promised Australians they would get a "no surprises" government.

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At his briefing last Friday, Morrison said that, "Contrary to some media reports this week, Manus Island is not at capacity, and an additional more than 400 places will also be available by the end of next week."

Commander Campbell said there were 1101 people being held on Manus and 682 in Nauru. But asked what the capacity was at Nauru, Manus Island and Christmas Island centres that are being supported with billions of dollars in public money Morrison said: "We don’t report on what the capacity is at both of those places, only to say that there is sufficient capacity and we’re expanding that capacity."

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In general, says one, Abbott’s motto is that if you’ve got something to say,
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The strict control on information being run from the Prime Minister’s office directed by Abbott and his chief of staff Peta Credlin is causing ructions in the federal public service,
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Public service sources report at least two ministers have made themselves known to their public servants only by conveying the message, "don’t f it up".

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This, in turn, is affecting the flow of information to the public.

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Australian National University emeritus professor Richard Mulgan says when the Coalition was in opposition despite its critiques of Labor’s "chaos" and lack of transparency it did not have a government process agenda. "I don’t think they’ve come with a very strong commitment to making government more open, but they haven’t come with an open commitment to make it less open,
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"I think there are two things here. One is that everyone remarked on how disciplined the Coalition was in opposition; it controlled its own message and kept everybody in line very effectively, and quite naturally they want to extend the same sort of discipline and control to government. And I think that that message has gone out it’s gone out to ministers as well as public servants.

"But the other important thing is, I think, that the senior public servants’ overriding goal at the moment will be to try to secure the trust of the incoming government against a background of distrust among some members of the government and particularly among its main supporting community, for instance in the business community and so on, a sense that the public service is not necessarily to be trusted to support a right of centre government as much as a left of centre government."

The list of roadblocks is growing.

In 2010, Treasury and 15 other departments released under freedom of information laws partly redacted versions of "red books", the briefs prepared in advance for a re elected government to the media and to the then Coalition opposition.

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