• Liberal Party Senator for Queensland
• Shadow Minister for the Arts (since 14 Sep 2010)
  Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate (since 3 May 2010)
  Shadow Attorney-General (since 6 Dec 2007)
• Became a Senator on 16 May 2000
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Bills: Deterring People Smuggling Bill 2011; Second Reading (25 Nov 2011)

“Can I indicate at the outset that the opposition supports these amendments. As a result of discussions between the Attorney-General and myself and an exchange of letters between the Attorney-General and the Leader of the Opposition, we have undertaken both to support the bill and to expedite its passage through the parliament. I will address it very briefly, although I do not propose to take...”

Bills: Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010, Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) (Consequential Provisions) Bill 2010; Second Reading (25 Nov 2011)

“With at most an hour and 20 minutes before the guillotine imposed by the government falls, we are now to proceed to consider the most important piece of human rights legislation before this parliament in 25 years. The Human Rights (Parliamentary Scrutiny) Bill 2010 is the most important human rights bill to be considered by the parliament since parliament passed the Human Rights and Equal...”

Motions: Gillard Government; Censure (24 Nov 2011)

“Three boats a year, Senator Abetz—a year. In the period since Labor abandoned John Howard's policies, do you know what the average number of unauthorised arrivals has been? Sixty-four a year, an increase of more than 20-fold. So you went to the 2010 election under Julia Gillard, having stabbed Kevin Rudd in the back, and Julia Gillard said: 'The one thing we stand for is offshore...”

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• Has spoken in 117 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Senators.
• People have made 1 comment on this Senator's speeches — average amongst Senators.
• 20 people are tracking whenever this Senator speaks — email me whenever George Brandis speaks.
• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 359 times in debates — above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)