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

I will make three observations in response to Senator Whish-Wilson's attempted supplementary question: (1) I will not, on such a sensitive issue, seek to politicise it in any way, unlike the Australian Greens; (2) I will not, as a politician or a minister, seek to overturn what are appropriately the decisions of the Commonwealth Director of Public Prosecutions or those in whom such authority to make legal determinations is vested; (3) I would note again that our country has held itself to a standard of accountability and transparency on this highly sensitive matter the likes of which I struggle to think of any other nation holding itself to.