Latest George Brandis Quotes from Interviews

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• Bill Shorten should - either knows that or at least he should know it and for him to change the conversation by proposing - by suggesting a proposal significantly more adventurous than where the conversation has been up until now was a very unhelpful intervention.

  George Brandis

  Bills, Proposal, Adventurous

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I decided few years ago to leave the bar to pursue a career in politics because I wanted to make a contribution in Parliament.

  George Brandis

  Careers, Years, Bars

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• It is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.

  George Brandis

  Community, Support, Broads

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• There have been 44 constitutional referenda in Australia and only eight have succeeded.

  George Brandis

  Eight, Australia, Has Beens

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.

  George Brandis

  Journey, Years, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• Abdul Nacer Benbrika's sentence doesn't expire, I'm told, until 2021, but I think it would be invidious for me as the Attorney-General to talk about individual cases or to anticipate the way in which a court, because it would be a judicial decision, might at some unspecified future time dispose of an application under a law that hasn't even yet been enacted.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Law, Decision

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I am because the Chinese have agreed - entered into this agreement in 1997. It sets out the circumstances in which the release of a prisoner who is the subject of a transfer may occur in exceptional circumstances. So the Chinese, having agreed to those principles, I'm sure have no objection to them being applied in this particular case.

  George Brandis

  Agreement, Chinese, May

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• This is an issue that the Prime Minister put on the COAG agenda. First of all, it is something that would only apply in an extreme case where the service by a terrorist of a sentence of imprisonment had in no way curbed their desire or their intention to commit terrorist offences in the community, so that this is a - would be a public safety measure. The second point I'd make to you is that this is not unknown to the law.

  George Brandis

  Law, Issues, Safety

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• The modern Australia, the Australia of the 21st Century, Malcolm Turnbull's Australia has nothing to do with the kind of protectionist and xenophobic attitudes that Pauline Hanson represents.

  George Brandis

  Attitude, Australia, Kind

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• She is not being preferenced - she's not on our preference card because Pauline Hanson's view of Australia is basically a very - it's a very old view.

  George Brandis

  Views, Australia, Cards

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's what is on people's mind, and when the election results are in on 2nd July, I'm confident that that message will be translated into the ballot box.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, July, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Would Be, Retrograde

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• Well I'm not making predictions. But the point I can - what I can say to you to contribute to your thinking is as somebody who has been out knocking on doors, doing the street corners, speaking to constituents right across the country is that the Government - that people understand that the Government's message of jobs and growth is addressing their concerns and they have a level of - a high level of confidence that Malcolm Turnbull and Scott Morrison are the people who can deliver.

  George Brandis

  Country, Jobs, Thinking

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• Historically, it's very unusual after a change of government for the new government not to be returned.

  George Brandis

  Government, Unusual, New Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• One of the senior Labor frontbenchers from Queensland, Terri Butler, said that she was against the Adani mine. So that is the clearest statement we've had from a person who would be a member of a Shorten government, that if there were to be a Shorten government as far as she's concerned, the Adani mine wouldn't go ahead. People in Rockhampton know that and they're very worried about it.

  George Brandis

  Senior, Government, People

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• Michelle Landr is a fabulous member of Parliament. She is a true representative of that community. She's a classic middle-of-the-road Australian who represents the interests of her community with passion and with a lot of common sense.

  George Brandis

  Passion, Common Sense, Community

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this time because the big issue in Capricornia which is based on the city of Rockhampton is the fact that the economy is - the regional economy is in a poor shape as a result, in particular of the decline of the mining industry and they are looking to the Carmichael mine, the Adani project as containing all of the prospects that they see for their future and that is why people in Rockhampton are very, very fearful of a Labor-Greens government.

  George Brandis

  Party, Government, Cities

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• I've spent some time in North and Central Queensland, in fact as recently as yesterday I was in Rockhampton, where the seat of Capricornia is based. I have to tell you that people in Queensland, but particularly regional Queensland, are very concerned about jobs. They are very concerned that the economic future for themselves and their children and their grandchildren should be - should be clear.

  George Brandis

  Jobs, Children, Yesterday

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• The Coalition's message of jobs and growth is resonating very, very strongly in North and Central Queensland and one thing they're particularly fearful of is the possibility of a Green-Labor government, a government in which the Green tail wags the Labor dog.

  George Brandis

  Dog, Jobs, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

• There could be constitutional problems with executive detention if it is seen to be arbitrary. I didn't actually say that the NSW Government's proposed anti-terrorism bill was necessarily unconstitutional - that was sloppy journalism - I said that executive detention may raise constitutional problems if it is seen to be arbitrary as being an invasion of the judicial function.

  George Brandis

  Government, Arbitrary, May

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

• One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

  George Brandis

  Corruption, Has Beens

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

• I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in the whole history of Australia. I don't think we should create the architecture to solve a problem which barely exists.

  George Brandis

  Thinking, Australia, Sides

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

• The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.

  George Brandis

  Criminals, Crime, Code

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

• I don't really know a lot about these 'anti-protest' laws. I'm only vaguely aware of them, but I don't have enough detailed knowledge about them to comment.

  George Brandis

  Law, Enough, Protest

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com

• Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal society at university is an important step in the Liberal Party in terms of being noticed and making your name known.

  George Brandis

  Party, Names, Careers

  Source: thebriefonline.atavist.com