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

My question is to the Minister representing the Attorney-General. When was the Attorney-General or his office first aware that the Prime Minister's royal commissioner had agreed, at the invitation of the Liberal Party, to be the keynote speaker at a Liberal Party fundraiser advertised since April? Did the Attorney-General, his office or his department provide advice to the royal commissioner on this matter? If so, what was that advice?

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

I thank the member for his question. I understand that the Attorney-General contacted the commissioner this morning, at which time the commissioner informed him that he was not attending the Sir Garfield Barwick address.