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… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
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… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
I am because the Chinese have agreed - entered into this agreement in 1997. It sets out the circumstances in which the release of… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
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… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share
I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
We have a great literary tradition in Australia. I think the book is very much alive and the more people who are encouraged to… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
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… — George Brandis Copy Share
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… — George Brandis Copy Share Image
If there were to be a Labor-Greens government, that would be the end of the Adani mine, that would be the end of coal mining in central Queensland, and that would be the end of their best shot at economic prosperity in the future. — George Brandis Copy Share
This is a very practical discussion about the fact that one of the largest coal companies in the world, Adani, wants to build one of the, develop one of the largest coal mines in Australia in this region of Australia. And if they get the green light to do that, that will secure the economic future of people in Rockhampton,… — George Brandis Copy Share
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… — George Brandis Copy Share
The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.I want an Australian vision of arts policy that is expansive, is embracing, is not narrow, is not parochial. For example, that Australians can do Shakespeare just as well as Englishmen can because we, like every civilised nation, partake of the great canonical works. It's… — George Brandis Copy Share
