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Attorney General Senator George Brandis accused of covering up movement of royal commission funds
THE Attorney-General George Brandis has been accused of attempting to cover up the movement of funds from the Royal Commission into Child Sexual Abuse to Royal Commission into the Home Insulation Program.
In what has been described by Shadow Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus as an “indication of the government’s twisted priorities”, the accusation comes after Senate Estimates revealed the Abbott government shifted millions of dollars in unspent money from the child sexual abuse royal inquiry to the inquiry into the former-Labor government’s home insulation program.
Labor’s disastrous program resulted in the deaths of four young men.
“They [Liberal party] said in Opposition that they supported the royal commission, but they are now taking from it to pay for the royal commission insulation program,” Mr Dreyfus told news.com.au.
“To have deliberately taken money from the child sexual abuse commission and to try to conceal what they’ve done is quite wrong.”
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