Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Let me just make this point. The member for Chisholm is a member of the House of Representatives because she was duly elected, consistent with our Constitution and our electoral laws, and because the people of Chisholm put their confidence in her to represent them here in this parliament. She absolutely is a duly and validly elected member of parliament.

Just by way of context, there has been an ongoing pursuit of this particular member for some time by the Labor Party. Let's not kid ourselves. The effective allegation that the Labor Party has been pursuing in an implied and dog-whistling way, without actually saying it explicitly, is that, because she is an Australian of Chinese origin, she's a spy—