What key players say about AFP raids

WHAT KEY PLAYERS SAY ABOUT THE AFP RAIDS

"There has been no influence on the AFP in the conduct of this investigation."

- Australian Federal Police commissioner Andrew Colvin tells reporters in Canberra.

"This is about the right of the public to know and the media to publish. I believe that we need to get to the truth of what's really happening in the NBN."

- Opposition leader Bill Shorten.

"The police are doing their job, they're doing it independently, they're doing it with integrity."

- Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

"These are extraordinary and unprecedented events and the government has a great deal of explaining to do."

- Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus.

"We are in the second week of an eight-week election campaign - the police must know that. They should have, I think, thought more and been more cautious about what the appearance of this might have been because there are obvious political connotations."

- Dreyfus again.

"I think the idea that the Australian Federal Police would time this raid ... after a Medicare announcement by Bill Shorten yesterday is nothing short of loopy."

- Cabinet minister Christopher Pyne.

"We know that he was desperate to stop it getting out that the (NBN) roll-out is way behind time."

- Labor frontbencher Anthony Albanese says of Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull.

"The timing is very curious - it does have a whiff about it."

- Greens leader Richard Di Natale.

"Instead of the argy bargy as to whether these raids were politically motivated or not, the real issue is whether our current government secrecy laws need to be changed and whistleblower laws strengthened."

- Independent senator Nick Xenophon.