Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have to confess that often in this chamber the tone of the debate is so much less than I might have hoped it would have been when I first came here, and I have to indicate that with the freedom-of-conscience vote I think something quite significant is happening in the chamber this evening. People are thinking. People are putting their view, and they are doing it with eloquence. As a former English teacher, I absolutely rise to the turn of phrase that I've—