Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Now that you have denied that assertion, you are in direct contradiction of the comments of ASIO Director-General Duncan Lewis, who, in answer to a question I asked at Senate estimates last month, said:

… commentary … about members of the Islamic faith being unwelcome here … can make engagement with the Islamic community more difficult and, ipso facto, that makes our job—

ASIO's job of making Australians safe—

more difficult.

Is he wrong or are you wrong? (Time expired)