Brandis, Sen George

Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:02): I am not going to comment on a meeting which I did not attend. I have seen the remarks attributed to His Grace the Archbishop. It would not be the first time in the history of the world that different people had different recollections of a conversation. But I can assure you that the government's position has been entirely consistent, and has never changed from the first day to this—if there is public funding, it will be in equal shares.