He pointed to media reports that claimed Asis had broken into and bugged cabinet rooms.
He told the ABC the whistleblower intended to provide "credible direct evidence" of the bugging of the Timorese cabinet rooms in 2004.
"And if we do not stand up and put women in the epicentre of decision making, whether it's boardrooms, government boards, politics, cabinet rooms, wherever, if you don't have women there, we will not exist".
Writers of books published to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the first world war describe what appears to be a combination of astonishing complacency in the chancellories and cabinet rooms of Europe, belligerent rhetoric and dangerously mixed messages.
The home secretary, Theresa May; the foreign secretary, Philip Hammond; the development secretary, Justine Greening; the energy secretary, Amber Rudd; and the chancellor, George Osborne, are all due to attend the discussions in the cabinet rooms.
Lincoln's White House and Davis's White House mirror each other bizarrely, from difficult wives and incompetent generals, through issues of habeas corpus and conscription, down to the children playing underfoot in each of the cabinet rooms.
