Cash and Leak

raid: Michaelia Cash aide resigns over AWU raid tip-off to media Read more While Labor leapt on the revelation as a sign of Cash's evasiveness on the AWU raid leak, sources close to Cash believe it supports her version of events that neither she nor her office is under investigation, according to The Guardian. The Australian Financial Review, which first reported the revelation, suggested the leak made Cash a victim of payback culture within the Liberal party after she helped depose Malcolm Turnbull in last week's leadership clash. Guardian Australia understands the former employment minister's evidence to the police consisted of only a witness statement detailing her evidence already in the public domain and she was not asked follow-up questions. A senior Liberal source was quoted as saying that Cash was asked to cooperate and she didn't although Cash insists she did cooperate with the police but simply did not know anything more about the tipoff. Play Video 1 35 I am 'absolutely not covering up' AWU raid, says Michaelia Cash video In Senate estimates, Cash repeatedly denied that her office was involved, but on 25 October her then senior media adviser David De Garis resigned after Buzzfeed revealed that he had tipped off the media about the raid. In October, journalists and television cameras were present when the police raided the AWU headquarters as part of the Registered Organisations Commission's investigation into 100,000 in donations from the union to the campaign group Get Up in 2005. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.