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‘I won’t be taking questions’: Michaelia Cash squibs election debate

Michael Pelly

The back seat that Attorney-General Michaelia Cash is taking during the election campaign has reached farcical status.

Many months ago, Cash accepted an invitation to speak at the Australian Bar Association’s Re-Emerge conference in Melbourne next week. The ABA was also talking to her office and with shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus about an election debate on legal issues, given the timing.

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Michael Pelly is the legal editor, based in our Sydney newsroom. He has been a senior adviser to federal and state attorneys-general and written two books, one a biography of former High Court Chief Justice Murray Gleeson. Email Michael at michael.pelly@afr.com

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