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

If I may finish the sentence I was in the middle of when answering the primary question, Mr Shorten, who did not approach the royal commission for the purpose of helping the royal commission as Ms Jackson did, was nevertheless afforded the courtesy through his legal representatives of being given advance notice of the documents on which he was going to be questioned. So the suggestion that Ms Jackson was given some sort of special treatment that was not vouchsafed to others who approached the royal commission, including Mr Shorten himself—