Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

There are a bunch of statements in that question that are erroneous in terms of the way in which they seek to verbal the Australian Federal Police and information that they have given in previous evidence to Senate estimates inquiries and other parliamentary processes. There's also an assertion being made by the senator that is getting way ahead of where any matter may be or may ever go to. Indeed, the senator ought to reflect on whether his questioning is helpful for getting the answer that the opposition claimed they wanted when they addressed this matter in the first place to the New South Wales police. Those opposite, if they want to get an honest answer from the New South Wales police, ought to avoid compromising the investigation by continuing to throw assertions around or make assumptions about how the investigation will proceed when in fact it may never get to the point of such— (Time expired)