Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

No-one is disputing that, Attorney. The question is: what were your instructions to the Solicitor-General? You said you cannot waive legal privilege on this matter. Attorney, given you are actually a serial waiver of legal privilege when it suits you politically to do so, will you now waive legal privilege, as you are entitled and have the right to do, and reveal whether or not you instructed Mr Gleeson not to run a particular argument in the High Court?