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

My advice to those people is to speak to Mr Dreyfus and inquire of him why, when he established a program, he engineered it to terminate four years later. If he was of the view that there was a need for continuing funding, he could have asked for it, but he did not. He engineered a program beyond the life of the government of which he was a member to terminate at 30 June 2017. I know that community legal centres are suffering as a result of the Dreyfus funding cliff, and they ought to take the matter up with the person who engineered that funding cliff.