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

I do note that the analogy is drawn, as it was by Senator Waters, and often by others, between the investigation that the High Court undertook in relation to former Justice Dyson Heydon and these other matters. Indeed, the matters that the High Court investigated, as many other entities do, relate to workplace harassment matters and allegations of what occurred in that particular workplace.

There is a significant difference in relation to the type of investigation you would expect conducted on those matters compared with criminal law allegations that date back a considerable period of time. The right and appropriate way for criminal law allegations to be investigated in this country is through the appropriate legal channels. The government absolutely stands by and supports all of those independent law enforcement agencies to do their jobs.