August 12, 2026A collective show of support for NSW DPP Sally Dowling has raised questions about whether senior prosecutors used the authority of public office for a personal and political purpose. “…as DPPs, we have an acute understanding of both the privilege but the heavy responsibility that these roles occupy,” Engel said. Either way the statement involved embroiling one’s own public office in the irrelevant affairs of another jurisdiction and seeking to influence political and parliamentary matters. This was all for a fundamentally personal purpose, that of ‘showing support’, something not required of them by their legislation or any part of the discharge of their important public functions.” All communications between the Victorian DPP [Brendan Kissane KC] and Ms Sally Dowling relating to the statement including prior to and after its issuance”.