The scandal involving the unlawful leaks to the media of the Registered Organisation Commission raids of the AWU office involving Liberal ministers gets murkier by the day. We learnt today in Senate estimates, via the AFP, that evidence was actually destroyed by the office of the then Minister for Workplace Relations. Let's look back to what the minister actually said at the time: 'These raids had to occur to stop the destroying of evidence.' We now know that it was actually the minister's office that was actually engaged—

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