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

So, here we go again. As a male, I find it offensive—abhorrent, even—to sit in this chamber and have to listen to Senator Anning's disgusting diatribes. It's hard to imagine how deleterious it must be for female senators. It was awful to sit with my female staff at the last sitting—going through the reds, as we say—and to read Senator Anning's claims about abortion being, in his words as then circulated, 'state sanctioned murder and Queensland's new child-killing laws'. He's since cleaned up the wording in his new motion. But I just want to register my disgust that a male senator would deliberately use language that is hurtful to all Australian women who've had to make painful decisions about terminating a pregnancy.