He picked up the phone to his mate, the New South Wales Attorney-General, and said, 'I am going to write the New South Wales Police minister a letter. And not only that, I have actually got documents that you might be interested in. Not only am I not going to get involved in this, I am actually going to furnish evidence and you might want to have a look at it.'

And so on one hand you cannot stand here and condemn Nicola Roxon for being involved in settling a case, which is the right and proper role to undertake when the Commonwealth is before the courts, while you, as a shadow Attorney-General with the potential to be an Attorney-General, hand over documents, encouraging your mates—