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George Brandis

A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably the greatest liberal philosopher in the 20th century. I sat beside him and we spoke about liberal philosophy and the events of the 20th century all night over dinner – it was unforgettable!

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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.

Decision

Law

Thinking

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

Artistic

Ideas

Views

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.

Adventurous

Bills

Proposal

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

Battle

Country

Seats

Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company, wants to develop the Carmichael mine… And people in Rockhampton know that and they know that the Greens are doing everything they possibly can to prevent the development of the Adani mine.

Coal

Development

People

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

Government

New Government

Unusual

I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn’t equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

Art

Strong

Unique

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.

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Chinese

May

I am the enemy of anything parochial.

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Quotes by George Brandis

George Brandis

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea of there being a single view of cultural policy dictated from on high.

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.

Capricornia is one of the most marginal seats in the country. So naturally the electoral battle is fought in the marginal seats.

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

I am a very, very strong advocate of the notion that we shouldn’t equate the arts with other aspects of infrastructure. They have a unique role in any civilised society and that requires appropriate and targeted government support.

I am the enemy of anything parochial.

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