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

the most recent one was the Hon. Murray Gleeson, the former Chief Justice of Australia. The audience of the Sir Garfield Barwick lecture is not the members of the Liberal Party but the members of the New South Wales bar. So I do not doubt for a moment that there is a Liberal Party connection to the Sir Garfield Barwick lecture—of course there is, because it is being promoted by an entity within the New South Wales division of the Liberal Party—but the audience to which it is promoted is not Liberal Party members but barristers.

Lastly, the lecture, or the event, is run at cost price. No profit is made from the lecture at all. No funds are raised, and I would not describe something as a fundraiser at which no funds are raised.