Turnbull speaks to AFP over OzCar email

Opposition Leader Malcolm Turnbull has met federal police investigating a fake email
central to the OzCar affair.
For the moment, Mr Turnbull has survived his most tumultuous week in politics after
an email the coalition was using to put pressure on the government turned out to be
a forgery.
There are questions about what knowledge, if any, the coalition had about the email
before it first became public at a Senate inquiry on June 19.
The coalition seized on the email and testimony from Treasury official Godwin Grech
- who has also spoken to police - to call for the resignation of Prime Minister
Kevin Rudd.
Mr Turnbull denies any involvement in the creation of the email but acknowledges he
will need to be more cautious in the future.
"All of us will, you've got to learn from episodes like this," he told Network Ten.
Mr Turnbull confirmed he had been co-operating with Australian Federal Police.
"I've not been interviewed by them," he said.
"I've met with the federal police and given them a statement."
In a little over a week, an affair that on first glance seemed to be about the Rudd
government doing favours for Queensland car dealer John Grant turned into a major
embarrassment for the opposition.
Last week, Mr Turnbull was subject to repeated calls from the government for his
resignation and there was discussion within his own ranks about his handling of the
affair.
"The biggest lesson is that there's always adversity in politics and you have to
deal with it and move on," Mr Turnbull said.
But Mr Turnbull denied any disunity.
"The party is united. Certainly we've had a tough week, there's no doubt about
that," he said.
"I don't think you've ever seen an opposition pull together more tightly and fight
back more strongly than we did during this last week."
Some in the coalition are said to be irritated that Mr Turnbull's aggressive attack
on the prime minister - which turned out to be based on fabricated evidence -
obscured genuine questions about whether Treasurer Wayne Swan used his influence to
Mr Grant's advantage.
Finance Minister Lindsay Tanner disputed that Mr Swan was ever in any strife.
"If you look at the public record you'll see that the case that has been made
against him is just a classic example of putting two and two together and getting
five," he told the Nine Network.
"Really, there's no substantive case for Wayne to answer."
Liberal frontbencher Tony Abbott offered his support to Mr Turnbull, whom he said
had not flinched in the face of a sustained government attack.
"(He's) been under every bit of attack that the government could mount. I mean
they've thrown the kitchen sink at Malcolm Turnbull this week and he hasn't
flinched," he told ABC TV.
By contrast, he said, Mr Rudd had sounded "slightly hysterical" when he called for
Mr Turnbull's resignation.
"We've seen a prime minister who's come down from that mountain top of calm
authority that he'd like to inhabit and he's got into the gutter," Mr Abbott said.