Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

I stand today as a person who has broken the law, and I am proud of it. I support Senator Di Natale in what he has said. I will not invoke Rosa Parks and Nelson Mandela and Martin Luther King Junior—even though I went to his funeral. Senator Abetz obviously did not hear me when he said, 'Does anybody disagree with me?' I shouted yes, but it did not suit his rhetoric.

The thing here is that you are entitled to break a bad law, but there is a proviso: you must be prepared to take the consequences and possibly be fined and possibly go to jail. I have been to jail and I have been fined $100,000 and I chose to go to jail again. I broke suppression orders that protected some of the worst sex offenders, child molesters, in this country. I said their names on the steps of parliament house, the house of democracy.