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

Senator Di Natale, maybe you're relying on the same lawyer who advised Mr Ludlam and Ms Waters, because neither of the propositions you've stated are true. In order to succeed, we will not be asking the High Court to overturn any previous authority whatsoever. The remarks that I have referred to in media interviews, from Sykes v Cleary and Nile v Wood are not the remarks of judges in a minority on that point. They were observations made by judges in those cases from which none of the other members of the court demurred.