Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Scarr, when you asked questions about this the other day, I made the point that I am surprised that nearly two weeks after this whole alleged scandal started the opposition, including you, continue to ask questions that are predicated on court documents that were leaked to the media and were only available to a very small number of people. I saw the reporting on these court documents in the Australian when it was first reported, and I remember it saying that the documents were held by a very small number of people. A couple of names were given, and I am not going repeat those names here. But a couple of names were given in that article as to people who had access to that documentation. It also said that the government, as in the Albanese government, had access to the documentation. I fail to see how it was in the interest of the Albanese government to leak to the media private court documents that are now being pursued by the opposition.