Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to the Prime Minister's answers yesterday about Senator Molan. Is the Prime Minister aware that, last year, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom publicly rebuked President Trump for sharing material from the same racist and bigoted group that Senator Molan has shared? If the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom can rebuke the President of the United States for sharing material from Britain First, why can't the Prime Minister of Australia publicly rebuke his most junior backbencher for doing exactly the same thing?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I suppose we can be pleased that the member for Isaacs did not repeat the scurrilous attacks on Major General Molan that we saw yesterday—the disgraceful attacks on a great Australian, a great Australian soldier, who has defended and fought for the values and the freedoms we enjoy in this parliament. Senator Molan has taken down all of those postings. He has closed his Twitter account and taken down all of those postings. He has made a public statement about it, regretting that he posted them in the first place.