We need to tell Australian stories,we need to encourage and fund and present Australian work but we also need to understand that for a sophisticated, educated, culturally aware, modern nation we can't be parochial.
George BrandisIt is a necessary precondition for the success of a referendum that there should be broad community consensus and bipartisan support for it.
George BrandisI'd say about Malcolm Fraser, as he said about himself, is that he was always, from the day he entered Parliament in 1955 until the day he died today, was a Liberal.
George BrandisThe political bug first bit me was Malcolm Fraser's resignation from the Gorton Government.
George BrandisIf you were a person in Rockhampton who is wondering where your next job was coming from, and you had the prospect of one of Australia's largest ever coal projects with a very, very long life span being developed and reviving the regional economy. And you saw the Greens in particular doing their little best to stop it happening.
George Brandis