Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I refer you to the public statements of the New South Wales police commissioner, who said that the reason they are assessing it is because of the person who wrote the letter, who happens to be a shadow Attorney-General—who happens to be a political opponent, who happens to be a serial malicious letter writer and who happens to be in the business of pursuing political smears. That is their track record. And let me tell you: you would not want a single politically motivated partisan letter to become the test on whether or not a minister is stood aside.