Malcolm Turnbull’s emails: using private server could be ‘major security risk’, says Labor

Prime minister's office, in letter to Labor's Mark Dreyfus refusing freedom of information request, says too many emails would need to be examined

Potentially "hundreds of emails" that relate to national security matters could have been communicated over Malcolm Turnbull's private email server in what could amount to a "major security risk", according to the shadow attorney general, Mark Dreyfus.

The prime minister's office, in a response to a freedom of information request from Dreyfus obtained by Guardian Australia, said too many emails would need to be examined so it was refusing to process Dreyfus's request for them.