This affair is surreal.
Many offences against the Commonwealth Crimes Act by more than one party seem to be involved.
Leaders do not deal with spies for reasons which this affair illustrates.
It may be that one of the principals has been in a borderline physical and mental health condition for many years.
Even so, that he seems to have thought what he was doing was somehow a practical course of conduct, may show both the some of upper public service and upper political leaders in a poor light. The infection is likely to be general ?
The media reports are confusing. The text of the Auditor General's report should be extracted at length and published in papers like the Australian.