Government papers revealed in second-hand furniture sale

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.

File image of 'top secret' documents found in old filing cabinets in Canberra. Source: Getty Images Europe