George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

On the point of order: at the beginning of her answer to the first question, the minister asserted, quite wrongly, that she was not obliged to respond by saying whether or not legal advice had been sought. That assertion was quite wrong but, nevertheless, concededly it did directly answer the question. Everything else must be irrelevant—that refusal to answer the question having been given unambiguously.