Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

That was not my question. I asked if it was correct to say that if there's a constitutional functional power to do something you actually can't override it by legislation. In this case, if there's a constitutional function of, say, making representations, you can't override or limit or narrow that function by legislation—is that right? In other words, you can't out-legislate the Constitution.