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Mike Pezzullo,right,called Australian Federal Police's Deputy Commissioner Neil Gaughan,centre,after a raid on a News Corp journalist's house.Credit:AAP

"Good work by all involved,"Mr Gaughan wrote.

"I also received a call this evening from the Sec DHA[Secretary of the Department of Home Affairs] who is fully supportive of the actions of the AFP and ask[sic] me to pass on my thanks to the team involved.

"Well done -- tomorrow is another day."

The email was among documents obtained by South Australian senator Rex Patrick under Freedom of Information,the ABC reported.

The federal police raid on the Canberra home of News Corp reporter Annika Smethurst related to an article based on leaked government information.

With questions raised about his judgment,Mr Pezzullo has defended the telephone call.

"DC Gaughan is a colleague,"Mr Pezzullo told the ABC.

"In the discussion in question,I expressed my compliments to him and his officers on their professionalism and their diligent focus on independently enforcing the laws of the land,as the Parliament has passed them.

"To conflate the expression of professional compliments to colleagues with a supposed attitude to press freedom is not an accurate comparison."

AAP