Senator CORMANN (Western Australia—Minister for Finance, Leader of the Government in Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:06): Again, we have the Labor Party initiating a partisan, politically motivated smear by sending a letter to the New South Wales police. The New South Wales police commissioner, on the public record, has said that they are looking at it because of the position of the letter writer. I say it again: the shadow Attorney-General abuses his office. He's a serial offender. Senator Wong: The same two points of order. The first is abuse of office that is alleged. I can tell you who is abusing their office, and I'm happy to debate that. The second point is: how is this relevant to a question which relates to criticism of the Prime Minister by the former commissioner of ICAC? The PRESIDENT: On the first point, I didn't hear that phrase—I did hear the word 'abuser'—but I will check. There was a fair bit of noise as I was trying to call the chamber to order. I would counsel everyone to be careful of using phrases like 'abusing office' because I will consider that to be imputation against a member of another place. On the point of direct evidence, I believe the final phase of the question was, 'How was the phone call appropriate?' I believe that is quite open-ended, and the minister is allowed to address that in the way that he is and be directly relevant. Senator CORMANN: As I've already indicated to the chamber several times now, the Prime Minister advised the House of Representatives on a number of occasions that, as a result of the question from the Leader of the Opposition, he would seek appropriate information in order to inform his judgement in the context of his responsibilities in the context of ministerial standards. That's precisely what he has done, and he reported back to the House of Representatives accordingly. If the Labor Party was so concerned about it, why didn't you raise this at the time when the Prime Minister first informed the House of Representatives that that was what he was going to do?