Is the Attorney aware of previous complaints made by the Wood royal commission informant W26?
Mr BOB DEBUS: It is relevant that the Leader of the Opposition continues, even today, to traffick in false claims in this respect. Every utterance he makes brings his incapacity to lead the State into sharper focus. We do know the Leader of the Opposition’s source. There was a time when the Liberal Party wanted paedophiles hung, drawn and quartered, but this hatred is apparently tempered by the hope that such a person might have something with which to smear a Labor politician. The source of the Leader of the Opposition’s claim is a compulsive liar and a convicted paedophile. Honourable members need to be clear about who it is that the Leader of the Opposition has taken on as an informant. I am not speaking of Senator Heffernan. These days he is such a profoundly unsteady and discredited figure that all he has left in public life is his near psychotic tendency to raise false claims under privilege. I am of course talking of the source of these complaints. This is the history of the Lea
