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George Brandis

Type: Person

Name: George Brandis

Title: Minister for the Arts and Sport

Organization: Government of Australia

Date of Birth: 22/06/1957

Place of Birth: Sydney, NSW.

Nationality: Australia

Fact Sheet: Biography for George Brandis

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 22 2013 - 3 reports

David Cameron

Rudd reignites talk on gay marriage

Former Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd's change of heart to support gay marriage may indicate numbers shifting in support of legalising same-sex marriage among parliamentarians.Rudd now supports same-sex couples being allowed to wed, so long as churches ... [Published New Zealand Herald - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Gay, Same-Sex Marriage, Tony Abbott, David Cameron

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 4 reports

Kevin Rudd

Gay marriage change a 'personal journey': Rudd

Kevin Rudd has denied hiding his true beliefs about same-sex marriage while he was prime minister, saying his current stance was the result of a ''personal journey''.Mr Rudd, who announced he had changed his position on same-sex marriage in a lengthy ... [Published Brisbane Times - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Same-Sex Marriage, Tony Abbott, Gay

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Kevin Rudd declares support for marriage equality

EMILY BOURKE: The political debate over same-sex marriage has been stirred up again, with former prime minister Kevin Rudd announcing he's had a change of heart and now supports gay marriage.But Mr Rudd's newfound interest in the marriage equality cause ... [Published ABC Online - May 21 2013]

Entities: Kevin Rudd, Adam Bandt, Same-Sex Marriage, Tony Abbott, George Brandis

First reported May 21 2013 - Updated May 21 2013 - 1 reports

Poll says Senate looks good for Coalition

A new Nielsen poll says the coalition could hold an absolute Senate majority or it might need to rely on a sympathetic independent.An Abbott government could end up controlling the Senate or have a sympathetic right-of-centre senator holding the balance ... [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 21 2013]

Entities: Coalition, John Madigan, George Brandis, Hung Parliament

First reported May 17 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Alan Jones Comments 17th May 2013

Well, has NSW Labor conspired to defraud taxpayers?That is the claim made by Shadow Attorney General, George Brandis, yesterdayThe Coalition has written to AFP Commissioner Tony Negus requesting it investigate an alleged Labor offer to Craig Thomson “as ... [Published 2GB - May 17 2013]

Entities: Craig Thomson, Alan Jones, George Brandis, Labor

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 17 2013 - 1 reports

Tony Abbott

Shepherd: Dump welfare? That's OK

IT WAS just another week in the nation's capital, the centre of serious policy-making, the hive of earnest decision-taking. The flaccid apathy over the Budget-that-might-not-be-the-Budget-for-long was quickly replaced by excitement over yet another Craig ... [Published Adelaide Now - May 16 2013]

Entities: Craig Thomson, Social Welfare, Tony Abbott, Labor

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

George Brandis

Brandis urges AFP to investigate Craig Thomson allegations

SHADOW attorney-general George Brandis has written to the Australian Federal Police asking it to investigate claims Craig Thomson was offered a lucrative deal to stand for Labor pre-selection in Dobell.In an interview with News Ltd the Labor discard confirmed ... [Published Whitsunday Times - May 16 2013]

Entities: George Brandis, Craig Thomson, Allegation, Labor

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 2 reports

Parties play tough with rival barbs (The West Australian)

Australian Federal Police will look into independent MP Craig Thomson's claim that the NSW Labor Party offered to let him lose a preselection ballot so he could leave Parliament with $95,000 from taxpayers.Also, the Opposition had to back down after denying ... [Published West Australian - May 16 2013]

Entities: The West Australian, Australian Labor Party, Warren Entsch, George Brandis, Labor

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

THOMPSON SHOULD FURTHER DETAIL PRE-SELECTION ALLEGATIONS

Embed codeGet News Video FeedUse this mRSS feed to stay informed of new content:| May 17, 2013 12:58am EST | 6min:30secLiberal Senator George Brandis says Craig Thompson should further detail his allegations that NSW Labor encouraged him to run for pre-selection ... [Published International Business Times Australia - May 16 2013]

Entities: Craig Thompson, Allegation, George Brandis

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 6 reports

Thomson has 100,000 good reasons to be smiling

Craig Thomson stands to pocket more than $100,000 from the Australian taxpayer by running as an independent.The scandal-plagued NSW MP has backed away from his explosive claim that Labor offered him a deal not to contest his NSW seat of Dobell - but acknowledged ... [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 16 2013]

Entities: Craig Thomson, Labor, Antony Green, George Brandis

First reported May 16 2013 - Updated May 16 2013 - 1 reports

ASIC's accidental block exposes secret internet filtering scheme

When the Australian Securities and Investment Commission (ASIC) sought to have two fraud-related websites blocked in April, it inadvertently blocked thousands of websites, exposing a secret filtering scheme that the government has implemented without ... [Published ZDNet - May 16 2013]

Entities: Application-Specific Integrated Circuit, IP Address, Scott Ludlam, ZDNet, INTERPOL International Criminal Police Organiza...

First reported May 07 2013 - Updated May 07 2013 - 2 reports

NDIS not about winning votes: Wong

Finance minister says the scheme's intention was never to boost ALP's popularity.You must be logged in to read this articleNot a member yet? Register today ›Business Spectator is available on all of your devices so you can access the latest news and commentary ... [Published Business Spectator - May 07 2013]

Entities: Penny Wong, George Brandis, Newspoll, Labor

More Content

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Kevin Rudd now backs same-sex marriage as publi... [Published Digital Journal - 2 hours ago]
Rudd reignites talk on gay marriage [Published New Zealand Herald - May 21 2013]
Gay 'bigotry': Wong accuses Christian group [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 21 2013]
Tragic asylum seeker farce – Australia excises ... [Published Communist Party of Australia - May 21 2013]
Wong lashes out at Christian lobby [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 21 2013]
Kevin Rudd declares support for marriage equality [Published ABC Online - May 21 2013]
Rudd at odds with Gillard on gay marriage [Published ABC Online - May 21 2013]
Gay marriage change a 'personal journey': Rudd [Published Brisbane Times - May 21 2013]
Rudd has change of heart on gay marriage [Published Adelaide Now - May 21 2013]
Rudd endorses gay marriage [Published Pacific Islands News Association - May 21 2013]
Rudd to Abbott: allow a conscience vote [Published Brisbane Times - May 21 2013]
More MPs supporting gay marriage: Carr (AAP) [Published West Australian - May 21 2013]
Poll says Senate looks good for Coalition [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 21 2013]
Alan Jones Comments 17th May 2013 [Published 2GB - May 17 2013]
Brandis urges AFP to investigate Craig Thomson ... [Published Whitsunday Times - May 16 2013]
Parties play tough with rival barbs (The West ... [Published West Australian - May 16 2013]
THOMPSON SHOULD FURTHER DETAIL PRE-SELECTION AL... [Published International Business Times Australia - May 16 2013]
Shepherd: Dump welfare? That's OK [Published Adelaide Now - May 16 2013]
Thomson kicked before he can quit [Published NEWS.com.au - May 16 2013]
Thomson has 100,000 good reasons to be smiling [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 16 2013]
Labor denies it seduced Thomson to run [Published BigPond News - May 16 2013]
Thomson quits Labor, to stand as independent [Published Special Broadcasting Service - May 16 2013]
Labor denies inducement to Thomson [Published Sydney Morning Herald - May 16 2013]
ASIC's accidental block exposes secret internet... [Published ZDNet - May 16 2013]
Thomson denies ALP encouraged him to seek pre-s... [Published Canberra Times - May 16 2013]
AFP urged to probe Thomson claim [Published NEWS.com.au - May 16 2013]
Opposition wants AFP to investigate Thomson claims [Published ABC Online - May 16 2013]
Struggling to outrun the political sleaze [Published Perth Now - May 16 2013]
No trade in unconditional love [Published WA Today - May 11 2013]
Brandis has huge job being seen as a freedom fi... [Published WA Today - May 09 2013]

Blogs

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Alberici wants the media given credit for defen... [Published Andrew Bolt - May 07 2013] Emma Alberici spends most of her interview with shadow attorney general George Brandis trying to knock down his undeniable proposition that the Gillard Government has… ...
Another Week of GW News, December 2, 2012 [A Fe... [Published ScienceBlogs : Combined Feed - Dec 03 2012] Logging the Onset of The Bottleneck Years This weekly posting is brought to you courtesy of H. E. Taylor . Happy reading, I hope you enjoy this week’s Global Warming news roundup skip to bottom Another Week in the Planetary CrisisLogging the Onset ...
No evidence against Gillard? Here it is [Published Andrew Bolt - Nov 30 2012] Belatedly, here is the transcript of the press conference yesterday in which shadow Attorney-General George Brandis put the case against Julia Gillard on the AWU… ...
AWU scandal - Brandis explains the “c... [Published Andrew Bolt - Nov 29 2012] In the Senate yesterday, shadow Attorney-General George Brandis called out there was “a criminal in the Lodge”.For making that dramatic and very… ...