Julian Hill (Bruce, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's 35 seconds; I'll be that long. It has been observed that the bail conditions may be unconstitutional—that'll be worked out in the courts, but the normal acceptance is that bail conditions are not supposed to hamper democracy or gag the press. He's now prevented from commenting on the Deputy Premier's appearance or behaviour.

ASIO warned last year that right-wing extremist rhetoric was reaching such an unprecedented audience in Australia that police should be focused on serious violent threats. Instead, in my view, conservative snowflakes in New South Wales have sicked the police and the criminal law onto a left-wing comedian who upset them. The public are yet to know what exactly the Deputy Premier of New South Wales told the police in order to get a specialist police unit, set up for terrorists and fixated persons, to act in the way they did.

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