Penny Wright (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis, regarding the President of the Human Rights Commission. I note the testimony of the Secretary of the Attorney-General's Department, Mr Moraitis, who told Senate estimates that he was asked by the minister to:

… formally put on the table or mention that there would be a senior legal role, a specific senior role, that her skills could be used for—

which the president could not accept without resigning her current position. When will the minister stop saying, 'Gillian Triggs's resignation was never sought,' and admit he placed unprecedented and unwarranted pressure on an independent office holder to resign?