Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice) Share this | Hansard source

I am really amused by the fact that those opposite are interjecting so heavily about this, as if they understand even a word about the role of the Solicitor-General. Seriously, I will give credit to the shadow Attorney-General that he might actually know something about the role of the Solicitor-General. As has been well and truly ventilated by the Attorney-General already, he consulted with the Solicitor-General at a meeting in his office on 30 November about the guidance and about the direction, and that is the subject of the very comprehensive submission that he made to the Senate committee inquiry into this particular matter.

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