Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Yesterday in estimates the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department said that no inducement was offered to Gillian Triggs and that she was not asked to resign. I have spoken to the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department this morning and he confirmed to me that Professor Triggs was not asked to resign, that she was not offered an inducement to resign, and I would back the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department over anyone on that side. If that is what the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department said, then I believe the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department.

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