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

I am neither aware that the transcript was put online nor aware that it was altered. But you asked me when Mr Martin told me that he was proposing to resign, and that was on the Saturday morning. I had a number of conversations with Mr Martin during the course of that weekend. I cannot tell you the day he formally was discharged from his letters patent but I assume that that was on a working day in the following week, when the Executive Council was able to meet. But when he first indicated to me that he wished to resign, or proposed to resign, was when he contacted me on the Saturday morning.