FORMER opposition leader and lawyer Malcolm Turnbull has some advice for Prime Minister Julia Gillard to clear up questions about her involvement with the Australian Workers' Union.
Ms Gillard held a second marathon press conference on Monday to address allegations in relation to her role as a lawyer in the 1990s for her then boyfriend Bruce Wilson, an AWU union official.
Mr Turnbull defended his former deputy Julie Bishop who continued the coalition attack on Ms Gillard on Tuesday.
"The answer to the question is of course it is an important issue, it goes to the integrity of the prime minister," he told ABC Television.
"There are many important issues and it is being focused on quite properly by the opposition this week."
Ms Gillard faced some serious challenges because the matter was 17 years old, some documents were available and some were not.
Mr Turnbull said his advice to Ms Gillard would be to publish a comprehensive written statement to deal with every allegation levelled at her and answer them, along with publishing related documents.
"That would then set the matter to rest if it was a satisfactory response."
If she could not do that she should appoint a special counsel to conduct an independent inquiry, Mr Turnbull said.
Communications Minister Stephen Conroy said the coalition had failed to find a smoking gun in relation to the prime minster's role as a lawyer for the AWU, despite first raising the issue in the Victorian parliament in 1995.
Senator Conroy said Ms Bishop had humiliated herself trying to prove she had a smoking gun on Tuesday.
"All she did was expose that she has got nothing," she said.
"After 17 years, after a week of questions she has got absolutely nothing."
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