As revealed in The Australian today, a Freedom of Information request submitted by the Institute of Public Affairs has revealed that former prime minister Tony Abbott and president of LibertyWorks and organiser of the 2019 Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, Andrew Cooper were investigated by the Attorney-General’s Department at the instigation of Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus.
The FOI reveals that on 22 July 2019, eight days before Senator Kristina Keneally’s speech to the Senate condemning CPAC, opposition legal affairs spokesman and former and former attorney general, Mark Dreyfus QC, met with senior representatives from the Integrity and Security Division of the...
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