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Parliamentary intelligence committee's inquiry on press freedom is on again today, with reps from the Australian Federal Police up first.

AFP confirms a copy of their written responses to questions from the committee went to Home Affairs minister Peter Dutton before they went to the committee. No changes requested. It's kosher / standard to run responses past the responsible minister apparently.

Acting commissioner Karl Kent has said an unauthorised disclosure is considered as corruption by AFP.

Also, shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus and Liberal senator Eric Abetz have had a bit of a blow up, because Abetz keeps interjecting on Dreyfus' line of questioning. Dreyfus jokes Abetz is giving evidence now.

AFP has said they've changed their procedure since they were "probed" by a parliamentary privileges committee for contacting Dutton's office three times before they investigated the source of the au pair leaks.

This is why they didn't contact Dutton's office before they raided Annika Smethurst's home or the ABC.

Shadow Home Affairs minister Kristina Keneally is asking why a journo was raided when they wrote a story based off leaked info the govt "didn't like", but the docs leaked to the Australian for a story on the medivac bill didn't even warrant a phone call to the journo.