Malcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

You can see that this issue is a comedy issue because the people of Australia are abused in this. Genuinely free societies do not arrest cartoonists, kids at university or reporters because some activist claims that they were offended by what they said. For goodness sake, what has this country come to? How can anyone call themselves a liberal or even a social democrat and allow this Stalinist repression of free speech to continue?

I urge senators in the Labor Party and the crossbench who do genuinely believe in free speech: do not be bound by your party's errors. Please think for yourselves and consider what sort of society we all want our children to grow up in.