Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, representing the Attorney-General. Yesterday the minister said in relation to the role the government offered the president of the Human Rights Commission:

I can advise that no such offer was made.

In fact, the secretary of the department said:

The Attorney-General wished me to point out that the government was prepared to consider a specific senior role ..

If the minister believes what the secretary said, why did she say the exact opposite to him?

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