Brendan O'Connor (Gorton, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

He went on to say—if the opposition just calm down a bit; just relax and we will get to it—in Senate estimates, while being questioned by Senator Brandis, that he confirmed that the intelligence report had never been provided to ministers. Indeed, he stated that the report was an ‘operationally focused document’ and it would be inappropriate to provide it to ministers. That is already on the record. Unless the shadow minister for justice is seeking to suggest that the Australian Federal Police commissioner would indeed mislead the Senate—

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