Hands up readers who believe the Home Affairs and Justice Minister, Jason Clare, and the Sports Minister, Kate Lundy, have gone over-the-top in their response to the Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport that the Australian Crime Commission released last Thursday. I believe so.

The Minister for Justice, who oversees the ACC among other agencies, is supposed to be responsible for matters relating to the security of life within Australia. He is not expected to be an investigator, prosecutor, judge and jury whose public advocacy happily coincides with the perpetual 24/7 news cycle. The Minister for Sport is responsible for supporting sport from the grassroots to the professional levels. She is not expected to hector and threaten sporting organisations.

Yet, in an extraordinary media conference in Parliament House last Thursday, Clare and Lundy stood at podiums with the ACC chief executive, John Lawler, and the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority chief executive, Aurora Andruska, nearby. Flanking them was what seemed like an old-fashioned police identification line-up. The potentially guilty men - they were all male - consisted of the heads of four main football codes plus Cricket Australia. The heads of basketball and netball were not present. Perhaps they had the good sense not to accept an invitation to such a confected event.

The ACC's report does not justify its media-grabbing title Organised Crime and Drugs in Sport. If organised crime has established such ''a tangible and expanding footprint'' as the report suggests, then you would expect it would have come to the attention of the Australian Federal Police and its state and territory counterparts.