Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

In stark contrast, we have provided important guidelines to the Minister for Home Affairs, to the AFP and to other law enforcement agencies about how they can best go about their business. I note also the statements from the commissioner of the AFP in the work that he is doing to review these matters. But I'll tell you what: if it comes to a position in this country where prime ministers and politicians decide who gets prosecuted and who doesn't get prosecuted without taking the appropriate advice and without seeing the appropriate proviso which are required under legislation, if we get to the point where the Leader of the Opposition wants to arbitrarily and outside the law decide who gets prosecuted and who doesn't, then that's not a country that I think Australians would want to live in.

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