article_snippet: I appreciate the public wants to know how these sums are computed but
article_snippet: Normally it would be for members of parliament to read my reports, to question members of parliament if members of parliament chose to, and if appropriate, for the attorney to appeal against members of parliament. '
article_snippet: That has not been done and unfortunately the choice has been made to do so in the pages of a particular newspaper, where the facts and legal reasoning were grossly misstated.'
article_snippet: This isn't the first instance the relationship between the commissioner and the government appeared strained.
article_snippet: Shadow attorney general Mark Dreyfus wrote to the Australian Federal Police at the time asking if attorney general George Brandis had in fact committed an offence by making the offer.