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

You have given me a lot of material to work with, Senator Sterle, but let me focus on the last, because that is far and away the most important thing you have said. The parliament was misled. The parliament was misled by the Deputy Secretary of my department on the Thursday of the first estimates committee and by me, inadvertently. And when the fact that incorrect evidence had been given to the Senate committee on the Thursday was confirmed, I immediately corrected the record, as did she.