Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

I seek leave to ask just one more question of the Attorney-General.

Leave granted.

Mr Attorney-General, after the ATO heard the bureaucratic whispers that you were about to issue a directive to overrule them and the High Court, did Mr Mills from the ATO approach you or your department and say—I am paraphrasing—'The Solicitor-General was already our legal representative in the High Court and it really has nothing to do with you'?