Anthony Albanese immediately points to when Peter Dutton was rebuked by the parliamentary intelligence and security committee for referencing confidential information in the parliament when he was in government.

Michael Sukkar uses his favourite point of order to say if Albanese is not going to answer the question he can “sit down” which was also Paul Fletcher’s favourite point of order, but Fletcher was always very angry when he spat out that final demand, in what we can only assume is a hangover from being Sydney University debate team pilled.

Albanese returns to his answer:

There are two choices you can make here. One – to prioritise getting to the bottom of what is happening here, supporting the police and intelligence agencies, or you can choose to play politics and play these games.

That is precisely what you are doing. No asking for a briefing of the security agencies, when I offer a briefing of the security agencies to others, no taking up of that, indeed an objection to a point of order to that as well.

[Albanese goes through the figures for operation Avalite but I miss one and don’t want to misreport]

That is the hard work that is conducted by our police and security and intelligence services. The idea that that is not the priority and that that should be not my focus is quite frankly absurd. Absurd and irresponsible.There are others on that side who know how irresponsible it is.