Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister, and I refer the Prime Minister to his reference to a police investigation in his previous answer. Has the Prime Minister referred the 6 June Iguana bar incident involving the member for Robertson to the Australian Federal Police, in particular its relevance to division 139 of the Criminal Code Act 1995? If not, when will the Prime Minister do so?

Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I draw the honourable member’s attention to the fact that there is a police investigation underway and furthermore that it is the judgement of the government that that investigation should proceed without political interference. For the benefit of those opposite, I also draw their attention to the discussion of debate which occurred in this chamber only about six months ago in relation to a then police investigation into the member for Bowman, where the former Prime Minister said the following in the midst of a heated debate:

Let me make this clear: at no stage while these investigations were going on did I use parliamentary privilege to say anything about the matter.

I draw that to honourable members’ attention.