Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Do I understand Senator Brandis, through you, Mr President, to be suggesting that what should occur is that the Attorney-General should not take the views of the AFP Commissioner into account and should be demanding a document that the commissioner himself has said is an operationally focused document that would be inappropriate to provide to ministers? Is that really Senator Brandis’s proposition? The government has made clear the nature of this report. The AFP Commissioner has made clear the nature of this report. This report is an operationally focused document and it would be inappropriate for it to be provided to ministers.