Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:01): Senator, as I have been saying ad nauseam, I actually consulted the Solicitor-General in relation to the matter on 30 November. I invited him to put his views in writing, which he did some 14 weeks later, and I had regard to those views.
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