Senate debates

Monday, 15 February 2021

Questions without Notice

Members of Parliament: Staff

2:54 pm

Photo of Linda ReynoldsLinda Reynolds (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Wong, I did not, in fact, say that it was at that meeting about the police. What I did confirm was that throughout this I took all of the relevant advice from ministerial and parliamentary services. That information was communicated to my staff member and included my recommendation to her that she consider talking to the AFP and seeking advice from them, which again is something that I facilitated for her. In terms of any further detail on that, I will seek advice because it is the subject, I've been advised, of an ongoing AFP investigation into the matter, which was opened in April 2019, and it is my advice that that investigation is still open or at least ongoing, so I do need to make sure that I do not prejudice anything that she may have decided to do then and now.

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