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George Brandis: Labor calls for Attorney-General to be sacked over ‘secret’ multi-million-dollar WA deal
The Federal Opposition is calling for Attorney-General George Brandis to be sacked over a “secret” deal struck with the West Australian Government allowing it to claw back nearly $1 billion from the collapse of Alan Bond’s Bell Group.
In May, the High Court struck down WA legislation that would have given the state the power to decide how to carve up the settlement following the collapse of the Bell Group in the 1990s.
According to The West Australian, the Commonwealth was…