Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

I will take notes in future, but in fairness, he did jump around between different topics. First, I absolutely reject the assertion that he made that somehow the Attorney-General has misled the House in any way, shape or form. That is not correct. He knows it is not correct and yet he continues to assert it. The Attorney-General has, as I raised in my previous answer, taken a direction and regarded the administrative process by which we get advice from the Solicitor-General. I think I am as surprised as everybody else in the country that it has caused the shadow Attorney-General to feel so aggrieved. It is an administrative process. It is a mere formality. When the Attorney-General has been asked if the Solicitor-General can provide advice, in every single case that he has been asked he has acquiesced to the Solicitor-General providing that advice. Again, I think this is a very straightforward issue and I am surprised it has taken up so much airtime.

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