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

I assume you are referring to the cuts decided upon by Mr Dreyfus when he was Attorney-General in the 2013 budget, which were engineered to expire on 30 June 2017. This is not a forward estimates estimate; this was a terminating program designed to finish on 30 June 2017. So, whatever reductions there may be on 30 June 2017 are in large part due to decisions made by your government, a government of which you were a member, which were designed to terminate then.