Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw. We have also seen the lengths that this Attorney-General will go to to prevent access to his diary. He has hidden his diary from the Australian public over a period of about three years, and it was not until we obtained orders from the Administrative Appeals Tribunal, backed up by the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, that this Attorney-General finally complied with the law and produced his diary, as he had been requested to three years ago, and now in this inquiry into the Bell Group litigation and the Attorney-General's involvement in that we see repeatedly the Attorney-General make dubious uses of public interest immunities to prevent the Senate obtaining answers to legitimate questions about the role of him and his office. The Attorney-General is supposed to be the first law officer of this country—