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The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians can have their say, and that is what Australians want.

George Brandis

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George Brandis
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: June 22
Australian Senator
Barrister
Diplomat
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Sydney
NSW
George Henry Brandis
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Australians
Perfectly
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The crime of bribery of foreign officials is an offence under the Commonwealth Criminal Code.
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I'm confident as a supporter of same sex marriage, I'm confident that there'll be a yes vote in that plebiscite, and that the parliament will then move very swiftly to implement the will of the people.
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Opera Australia has a mix - it produces new work, it produces from the classical repertoire and, particularly in more recent years, it's done those blockbuster musicals which are very lucrative for it and reach an audience that classic opera or a new opera perhaps wouldn't reach, like South Pacific for example.
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There always are a basket of issues in any federal election campaign, but in this part of Australia [Capricornia] I can assure you having as you know a fairly frequent visitor to Rockhampton, that the issue of jobs and employment and where the jobs of the future are coming from, is the biggest single issue on people's minds.
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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.
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The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
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I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.
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