Parker David: General DebateText is incorporated into the Bound VolumeParker David: General Debate[Sitting date: 03 December 2014. Volume:702;Page:1078. Text is incorporated into the Bound Volume.]Hon DAVID PARKER (Labour):There remains much arising from the Nicky Hager book to be investigated. The Inspector-General of Intelligence and Security last week showed the politicisation of the SIS by the head of the SIS and the Prime Minister’s own staff in his office. What was written off by the Prime Minister as a left-wing conspiracy theory during the election was proven to be true: underhand tactics were being used by the Prime Minister and the SIS.National was cynical enough on the day of the release of that report to drop two others including the report by Justice Chisholm on Judith Collins. That report found that Judith Collins did not undermine the Serious Fraud Office. It found that there was no evidence in that regard. It did not inquire into whether Judith Collins had been improper in respect of Oravida—whether she had a personal conflict of interest there a financial one. It did not inquire into whether it was proper of her to pass information about public servants to Slater. It did not inquire as to whether the other allegations as to undermining the Serious Fraud Office were correct. Those matters were all outside the terms of reference. The report did not exonerate Judith Collins in respect of those other matters and the report does not exonerate anyone else in respect of what may have been happening in respect of the undermining of the Serious Fraud Office.What do we now know? We know that thousands of dollars were being paid every month via Carrick Graham to Mr Slater. Presumably thousands of dollars were also being paid to Carrick Graham himself. What were both of them doing? Well they were both undermining the Serious Fraud Office. Who were they doing it for? We do not yet know who they were doing it for. It looks like they may have been doing it for Mr Hotchin. Why would Mr Hotchin have been interested in doing that? Well he was being investigated as to whether he should be charged with criminal offences following the half a billion dollars of losses suffered through Hanover Finance’s failing. He was being investigated at the time by the Serious Fraud Office. I have had two people make worrying allegations to me. One allegation is from a former staff member of the Serious Fraud Office who told me that at the time the Serious Fraud Office commenced its investigation a former adviser to Hotchin contacted this person and said: “Hotchin plays a rough game. You watch out. He will use underhand tactics to undermine the Serious Fraud Office and their staff.” The second allegation I had made to me was that Mr Hotchin used underhand tactics to take out some of the potential witnesses against him in respect of his conduct by Hanover Finance.I cannot name either of those sources and I cannot prove those allegations to be true. They are both hearsay allegations to me but these allegations must be investigated. We have seen in respect of the SIS matters that there was fire behind the smoke and in respect of these allegations we know that thousands of dollars were presumably being paid by Hotchin to Carrick Graham Slater and Cathy Odgers in respect of their efforts to undermine the Serious Fraud Office. What we do not know is whether those actions were criminal and whether there was a criminal conspiracy. I made a complaint to the police over 2 months ago in respect of that. The only information I had come back other than to inquire whether I had more evidence was a line in the Chisholm report to say that the allegations in respect of Judith Collins were not being looked at any further. It looks like no further actions are being inquired into.These are serious allegations. They must be looked at seriously by the authorities. We have seen the politicisation of the SIS. We must make sure that the police have not been politicised. They were happy enough to inquire into the teapot tapes to cooperate with the Prime Minister to deem Mr Ambrose guilty despite the fact that he had two arguable defences and yet we do not have the police looking at these most serious allegations as to whether the other allegations in the Hager book are true. Indeed Mr Hager—and if it were not for his efforts none of the SIS stuff would have come out and none of this other stuff would have been investigated—is the one who is being raided. He is the one who has suffered search warrants. And yet Mr Slater Ms Odgers Mr Hotchin or the others like Carrick Graham do not seem to have been investigated by the police and I do not think that is good enough.