Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to 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?

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

I thank the member for his question. Yesterday I said that no such inducement had been offered, and I said that she was not asked to resign and that no such job offer had been made.