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

Mr President, I enjoy Senator Dastyari's sense of humour and I enjoy my colleague Mr Barnaby Joyce's metaphors, although I must confess sometimes I find them a little impenetrable. I was not aware of Senator Joyce's reference to frogs, although there is of course that famous nursery rhyme of the princess and the frog. Perhaps that is what Mr Joyce was referring to. But there is an element of farce about this week and it is the position of Mr Mark Dreyfus, because Mr Mark Dreyfus is the only person in this parliament who holds a royal title, Queen's Counsel, which he could renounce but chooses not to while condemning the Australian government for reinstating an Australian order of chivalry.