State-focused scheme finds an influential supporter DURING this week's debate between Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus and Coalition legal affairs spokesman George Brandis, neither was prepared to give a commitment they would provide the long-promised federal seed funding for the planned uniform regulatory system for lawyers. But in an interview with The Australian, Senator Brandis outlined his preferred approach for the new system - which appears similar to key elements in the scheme drawn up by the governments of Victoria and NSW.