Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is not respected lawyer Julian Burnside correct in his assessment of Commissioner Heydon that:

…it was really never a tenable possibility for him to appear to be impartial on the Royal Commission while being so closely associated with the Liberal party as to accept that invitation.

And as a honourable person he should step aside. Why is it Senator Brandis failed to follow his cabinet instructions to say that Labor attacks on Justice Dyson Heydon reveal their true objective: to stop the royal commission into union governance? Why haven't you used that again? (Time expired).