David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to associate myself with the remarks of Senator Xenophon, and I want to compliment him on his jurisprudential understanding. The Corporations Amendment (Sons of Gwalia) Bill 2010 takes away rights of Australians. Very rarely does legislation come through both chambers of this parliament and remove rights of people, tortious rights, that we have fought long and hard for very many years to protect and revere in our system. Unfortunately, I really believe that not very many senators and not very many members of the House of Representatives understand just how this works, but I do say that I want to compliment Senator Xenophon and I agree with him.