Kelvin Thomson (Wills, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

This morning’s AM program claimed I faced questions about my judgement based on a letter I wrote on behalf of a constituent who lost his job on the waterfront at the start of this year. What the reporter, Josephine Cafagna, failed to mention was that the constituent was the subject of an Australian Federal Police criminal history check, conducted with his consent, which concluded that he did not have an adverse criminal record or an adverse security assessment. In fact, the federal Department of Transport and Regional Services gave the constituent his job back in February this year, but Ms Cafagna failed to make any reflections on their judgement in doing so. It is reports like this which give journalists a bad name.

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