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

Counsel for the Australian Council of Trade Unions, Mr Robert Newlinds SC, has appeared before the royal commission and has foreshadowed—as I understand what he had to say when I was watching just before question time—that he is in the process of ascertaining whether he has instructions to bring an application of the kind foreshadowed by Mr Peter Gordon from Gordon Legal, who acts for the ACTU, in a letter dated this morning and delivered to the royal commissioner this morning. That application has been adjourned to 4 pm. It would be entirely inappropriate for me to comment on the fate of a foreshadowed application, and I would counsel Senator Wong that it would be inappropriate for her to do so as well.