George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is directed to Senator Evans, representing the Prime Minister. I refer to the leak to the Australian of the conversation between the Prime Minister and the President of the United States. I note that, if the conversation was leaked by a public servant without the authority of the Prime Minister, this would constitute a crime under section 70 of the Commonwealth Crimes Act; if by a ministerial staffer, a crime under section 79 of the Commonwealth Crimes Act. Why have the Australian Federal Police not been asked to investigate this leak? Is it because in truth the Prime Minister was the leaker?