Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I am happy to do my best with that question, and let me at the outset say that this government fully supports the professionalism and the impartiality of Dyson Heydon QC and this government fully supports the necessity of the royal commission into trade union corruption. On the question of the professionalism and the impartiality of former High Court judge Dyson Heydon, let us never forget that this is a distinguished Australian who served with great integrity as a judge of the New South Wales Court of Appeal for three years. He served with great integrity as a judge of the High Court for almost a decade. This is a man of extraordinary integrity who, as was pointed out by someone who is no great friend of this government, Julian Burnside QC—

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