George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

In the answer I have just given you, I have given you the commitment and I have indicated to you the amount that the government will contribute to that particular program over the next four years. That is your answer. I know you care about this area, Senator Peris. In fact, during the recess—at your suggestion—I took some time to visit NAAJA in Darwin, and I spent a couple of hours with them. They do a very fine job. This is really an area in which there ought not to be so much party political division, because both sides of politics are committed to access to justice. But if you want to find the villain, do not look here; look right there at the person who was the finance minister in the Labor government which returned the six biggest budget deficits in Australian history, with which we were left to deal and to find the economies to bring the budget back on track. (Time expired)