Highly classified documents of Government found in cabinets sold at second-hand Store

The Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet has launched an urgent investigation into how thousands of pages of top-secret information surfaced in two second-hand filing cabinets. The highly classified documents should have remained confidential for decades, but, in a major security breach, were obtained by the media. Some of the inner workings of the past five federal governments have been revealed publicly, but perhaps the most bizarre twist is how it happened. The ABC has obtained highly classified documents found in the drawers of two filing cabinets purchased at a second-hand sale of former government furniture in Canberra. It is being described as one of the biggest breaches of parliamentary security in Australian history

Head of the National Security College Professor Rory Medcalf at the National Press Club in Canberra, Source: AAP