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On one hand, the family are around the phone listening in to a conversation. There is nothing wrong with that at all.
To listen in on a phone converstation without the other party being aware is illegal in Australia. A family in a room hearing only one end of the conversation is not. So your Christmas Day phone-call "We're all listening Grandma" is fine. Overhearing your daughter's end of her call because she is in the same room as you is fine. But to pick up another handset, or put another ear to the phone, without the other caller being informed, is illegal in Australia.
David clearly claims that the conversation was listened in to without the Quakers being informed. That is illegal. It is also highly probable that the call was recorded, the transcript being so specific about every word, but it can't be proved.
Either way, it's illegal.