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

In the period of time that I have been in the Senate—four years—this is the first time I have ever seen this occur. The government, supported by Labor, the Greens and possibly even others—I don't know, they haven't mentioned whether they support it or not—are denying the formality of a notice of motion, my notice of motion, that all lives matter. I cannot believe that you are not prepared to put this to the vote in the notice of motions. If you are not prepared to put it to a vote, then the answer to that is you don't care about all lives matter. That's what it's about. Otherwise you would put it and you would vote on it, but you're stopping the formality with it. What are you so concerned about?

Our nation is made up of many different races of people but people have come together here to be Australians. It doesn't matter what happens in our society, everyone should be treated equally and the same based on their needs, not on race. So what is your problem? The people in this chamber are too bloody gutless to stand up for the people of this nation. All lives matter, and that is my point. Until you realise that and stop pushing your own agendas, we will not be doing service to the people of this nation—the Australian people looking at us as leaders of this nation. Stop dividing this nation.