Senators are being told to flex their muscles to force accountability as the Albanese government's transparency record dwindles.

Federal Labor has t he second worst record on responding to the Senate's demands for ministers to produce documents , according to the Centre for Public Integrity.

It only complied with fewer than one in three orders in the last parliamentary term, significantly behind the Morrison government's one in two in the parliament prior.

Labor also claimed public interest immunity to avoid fully complying with an order about two-thirds of the time, which is more than the Morrison government as well.

The federal government says more orders, and more complex orders, are to blame for dwindling compliance rates rather than secrecy.

Given the government doesn't control

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