Trish Crossin (NT, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

If we want to go to the integrity of the position of the Attorney-General and if we want to go to the role that the Attorney-General plays when it comes to matters that may or may not potentially go before the courts, then what I need to say to the coalition is: you currently have a shadow minister in the role of the Attorney-General who also needs to look at his behaviour in the last 12 months. As Senator Faulkner said, if you want to sit inside your glasshouse and throw a stone, then you want to make sure it does not come back to hit you in the head.

This is a shadow Attorney-General who on 25 August last year according to the Daily Telegraph, the Sydney Morning Herald and the Australian, picked up the phone to his mate in New South Wales and said that he was going to write a letter because he had some information that ought to be used in the case with the member for Dobell. So last year we had Senator Brandis seeking to influence independent investigations by the New South Wales Police, by the New South Wales DPP.