Top-Secret Australian Government Files Were Left In Cabinets And Sold At A Secondhand Shop

These are the dodgy filing cabinets which held some of Australia's most sensitive secrets

NPR: Australian Government's Secret 'Cabinet Files' Were Found In ... An Old Cabinet

Australia's government is holding "an urgent investigation" into how hundreds of classified documents about the interior workings of several recent administrations found their way to the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

The ABC says the thousands of pages of documents had been left in two filing cabinets, which the government then sold off at a secondhand shop. The cabinets were bought cheap, the network says, because they were locked and the keys had been lost.

Inside the cabinets were records of five separate governments that spanned nearly 10 years; some of them refer to current members of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull's Cabinet.

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WNU Editor: Someone goofed.

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