Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to a leaked cabinet document from within the Turnbull government marked 'sensitive' and 'protected'. Given the document refers to details of past and future meetings of the National Security Committee of cabinet, what action has the Prime Minister taken in response to this national security leak, and will the Prime Minister be referring this leak to the Australian Federal Police for investigation?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The document concerned is not a cabinet document. My instruction from my officials is that it was an exchange between bureaucrats. It was not a cabinet document as such, in the sense of being—

Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Families and Payments) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Why was it marked sensitive?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It was marked protected because it was dealing with matters that were to be submitted to cabinet, but were not in fact submitted to cabinet. I understand that the secretary, Mr Pratt, is conducting an investigation. I cannot advise the House whether he has called the Australian Federal Police in to do so, but he certainly should.