The Press Council’s Mexican standoff

Dr Mumbo has been a fan of the can-do campaigning attitude of new Australian Press Council chairman Professor David Weisbrot.

However, he fears that while his calls for the government to send a “high level delegation to the Open Government Partnership’s Global Summit” are very noble the government may struggle to take him up on the challenge.

You see the summit is in Mexico City, and starts tomorrow (October 27).

Should the government look to send a delegation at this late stage it could get them on flights at 10am tomorrow which would get them in at 1.10pm – in time to make the last half of the first of the three days of the summit.