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

Senator Cameron, I assume your question is based on the report in The Australian newspaper this morning and the documents referred to in that report. Senator Cameron, nothing in that report and nothing in those documents supports the assertion that you and Senator Conroy in your invincible ignorance have made that there was coaching. There was no coaching whatsoever. What you fail to understand, Senator Cameron, is that Ms Jackson approached the royal commission with information, and in the ordinary course of events, as is the case with every witness who approaches a royal commission with information, that witness is interviewed. That is utterly orthodox and entirely appropriate—for a witness who approaches a royal commission with information to be interviewed. Furthermore, Senator Cameron, it is absolutely appropriate and absolutely—