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Michaelia Cash goes into bat for legal consumers

Michael Pelly

Attorney-General Michaelia Cash says she wants to take a consumer focus to her new job, with the cost of class actions and family law disputes topping her list of priorities.

In an interview with The Australian Financial Review, Senator Cash also said she hoped to introduce legislation for a Commonwealth Integrity Commission before the end of 2021 and wanted to promote more women to the bench.

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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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