Barnaby Joyce (New England, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much. On relevance, he seemed very upset about genetic testing. This is genetic testing. He then said the word 'discrimination'. I couldn't be more profoundly relevant to the issue of discrimination, in its most exact form, than with precisely what I'm talking about. I don't know whether the member finds it offensive or what the issue is, but you can't stand up and say it's got nothing to do with genetic testing, when it absolutely has, and it's got nothing to do with discrimination, when it is most profoundly attached to discrimination. And to belittle it by making a reference to Dennis Denuto—that is profoundly insulting and, I thought, quite below you, but anyway.

In closing, it is incredibly important, when we see this, that we bring it before the chamber and before the Australian people. The Australian people understand that, as we've seen here in a classic example, they will immediately try to shut you down. They will immediately try to put a shackle on this discussion because it doesn't suit their views of what they want. On this, I will side with the United Nations. He thinks it's some right-wing conspiracy. I've been reading this report, and it's hardly a right-wing conspiracy; it's a complete expression of a concern that the world has, which we are now also seeing in Australia. If the member believes that it's not an issue that 200 million girls are just not there because of people's preference for boys over girls, then I don't know when he became so lost in his own compass.

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