Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Finance, Charities and Electoral Matters) Share this | Hansard source

I note that request, and I thank you for it. The Fair Work Commission found on the totality of the evidence:

… I find that Ms Kitching performed these tests. Ms Kitching's denials of knowledge and involvement cannot be accepted.

So it is interesting that it is Senator Kitching leading this attack.

But let's go to the substance of what the Labor Party are saying. They are saying that, because the serial referrer to the police, Mr Dreyfus, the shadow Attorney-General, has written another letter to the police, and because the police, when they get something from someone senior in politics like the shadow Attorney-General, have to give it due regard, they are saying now that should be the test and that people should have to stand aside.

What has Mr Dreyfus's record been in the past in referring? He has referred a lot. He has referred nine matters, I believe, to police or other agencies, wasting their resources. He is the vexatious litigant. He referred George Brandis. He referred Christian Porter. He referred Stuart Robert. He threatened to refer Jamie Briggs. Every time this guy gets up to give a press conference and wants to refer somebody to the police. How many times has it led to charges? None. So we've got the shadow Attorney-General, who couldn't become the Attorney-General, because of the poor performance of him and the leadership of the Labor Party, who couldn't get into government, now wanting to bring down ministers by writing angry letters.