Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. In the past week the Prime Minister has repeatedly defended Dyson Heydon AC, QC, by referring to comments made by Julian Burnside QC. Is the Prime Minister of aware of comments made by Mr Burnside of Mr Heydon today that, 'It really was never a tenable possibility for him to appear to be impartial on the royal commission while being so closely associated with the Liberal Party to accept that invitation'?

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