David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Justice and Customs) Share this | Hansard source

I love it that Senator George Campbell says: so what? I am talking about the rights of the child, Senator Campbell. There is a United Nations convention that you obviously do not even know about. You just disclose your absolute gross ignorance—from someone who has served so long in this place. Let us talk about the human rights and equity issues flowing from this. Here we have a group of senators who want to start writing cheques bill by bill and case by case. What I am talking about is having an overall, well-considered policy that deals with this inequity. To do it one at a time, case by case and write the sort of cheques that Senator Murray and obviously Senator Ludwig would have us write is to discriminate against those who are not the beneficiaries of this bill. So the learned senators on the crossbenches are saying that two wrongs will make a right. I want to introduce the ingredient of family law—property settlements—into this debate. Senator Murray has not even thought about that, because superannuation will be the subject of—