George Brandis

I was President of the Queensland Young Liberals in 1981.

— George Brandis

We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that…

— George Brandis

I wouldn't necessarily assume that because Capricornia has traditionally been a Labor seat, that it'll go back to the Labor Party this…

— George Brandis

If I could say something about Capricornia, and it came out in your previous report, there is no doubt that the end…

— George Brandis

The political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.

— George Brandis

Well everyone's careers is a series of steps, but being the President of the Young Liberals or the President of a Liberal…

— George Brandis

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

— George Brandis

As a Liberal of course I am very strongly committed to the notion of artistic freedom and very hostile to the idea…

— George Brandis

I think there has only ever been one member of the Federal Parliament from either side found to have been corrupt in…

— George Brandis

The great works belong to no one nation, no one cultural tradition even. They are universal.

— George Brandis

One of the things about federal politics is that it has been remarkably free of corruption.

— George Brandis

The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country…

— George Brandis

Capricornia there is a particular regional particularity and that is the Adani mine. We know that Adani, the massive Indian coal company,…

— George Brandis

I've spent some time in North and Central Queensland, in fact as recently as yesterday I was in Rockhampton, where the seat…

— George Brandis

A dining club which I was involved in at Oxford University invited Sir Isaiah Berlin to dinner, who I believe was probably…

— George Brandis

You asked me about Queensland in particular and regional Queensland where our message of jobs and growth is resonating strongly because that's…

— George Brandis

I think it displayed what the Australia Council does so well, the awarding of artists who at various steps in their career…

— George Brandis

Malcolm Fraser, in the marrow of his bones, despised racism. He despised people who discriminated against other people because they were different…

— George Brandis

If you were a person in Rockhampton who is wondering where your next job was coming from, and you had the prospect…

— George Brandis

The thing about Dickens is you either love him or you hate him and I fell in love with Dickens, I fell…

— George Brandis

I think it would be frankly a retrograde thing for Pauline Hanson to be elected to the Senate.

— George Brandis

Let's be frank: if there are hardened terrorists [Australian] who are fighting overseas, we don't want to see those people come back…

— George Brandis

I'm reading Barnaby Rudge, one of the less well-known Dickens novels. I've been a life-long lover of Charles Dickens ever since I…

— George Brandis

The [Maicolm] Turnbull government's position on this is perfectly clear. We believe that there should be a plebiscite so that all Australians…

— George Brandis

I've never been one of those people, who subscribe to this notion that the book is dead.

— George Brandis