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

My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. Why did the Attorney-General contact the Prime Minister's royal commissioner this morning about his agreement to be the keynote speaker at a Liberal Party fundraiser advertised since April?

Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his question. I am advised that the Attorney-General first heard about this through the media. He telephoned the commissioner about 11.30 this morning, and the commissioner advised he had already confirmed he will not be attending the Sir Garfield Barwick address.