House debates

Wednesday, 5 February 2025

Questions without Notice

National Security

2:42 pm

Photo of Anthony AlbaneseAnthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

 The Leader of the Opposition, to quote him, referred—prior to the last election, when he was a cabinet minister with access to information—to 'both open source and other intelligence I see'. He referred to that, and he was rebuked by Senator Paterson as chair of the PJCIS. Also, that was in 2022. It wasn't the first time, because, in 2020, to quote an article:

The office of Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton was suspected of leaking information it was told was classified about the cost of medically evacuating refugees …

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