It has taken the high court to blow the lid on this government's secrecy.
The G8 meeting I chaired in Northern Ireland also forged a ground-breaking initiative to stop the true owners of companies hiding behind a veil of secrecy, tackling the cancer of corruption that does so much to destroy countries and increase the risk to our own security.
Noel Kututwa, Amnesty's deputy director for Africa, said: "It appears the Zanu-PF supporters wanted to ensure that these women did not vote for the other parties and tried to compromise the secrecy of the ballot.
Under his long stewardship, Luxembourg became Europe's wealthiest country, one of the richest in the world in per capita terms, as well as a bastion of banking secrecy and a tax haven for multinationals keen to exploit the EU's single market while minimising their contributions to the European exchequer.
"It is Tony Abbott's Tampa and together with the secrecy, you've got to wonder whether it's Scott Morrison's children overboard," Hanson-Young said on Wednesday.
After Senator Warren attacked the trade deal for being negotiated in secrecy and for largely helping multinational corporations, Obama slammed Warren in an interview with Yahoo.
And on the right, Republican presidential hopeful Carly Fiorina and others have attacked Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP's) "secrecy" and the lack of transparency in a deal involving 12 nations accounting for 40% of the world economy.
But the system for dealing with these crimes was the same everywhere: swear the victims to secrecy; send the abuser to be "cleansed" in a clinic; shift him to another parish (or in extreme cases like Smyth's to another country); and, above all, do not tell the police.
Illegal interception of the content of a message breaks your secrecy.
Autonomy is vitiated by the wholesale invasion of secrecy and privacy.
If the government was confident its process was fair and legal, it would not rely on such secrecy.
