Senate debates

Friday, 24 March 2023

Business

Rearrangement

9:47 am

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

One Nation will not be supporting the suspension to bring this motion on. We were called to have another day in this chamber to deal with important legislation about the reconstruction fund and Australian housing. That is what is important for us to discuss today. This bill was only brought into the lower house earlier this week and into this chamber yesterday. I think there should be time to debate this, not to be cut off and guillotined.

I believe that every member in this house would vote to get rid of Nazi symbols—we would definitely vote for it—but I've got to respond to Senator Gallagher's comments about what happened at that meeting in Victoria. It is utterly disgusting to say that because a Liberal MP attends a rally, and because some other Nazi sympathisers—if they were truly that, or was it really a set-up? I've spoken to people who were actually there. Nazi sympathisers actually don't hold hands. That's not their character. Isn't it funny that a couple of them were actually holding hands at the rally? Wouldn't you ask the question: why were they just allowed to proceed through to the rally, given free entrance into that area by the police? Was it truly real or was it a set-up? That's how I see it; it was a set-up. You talk about the politics of that woman, who had every right to attend it.

Are you going to say the same about me because I attended the rally out the front yesterday, because I went there to stand up for women to have a voice in this nation and not be dragged down because of people who are transgender and their rights? Where are the rights of the women in this nation—the right to have their sport, the right to go to their facilities, the rights to be called a woman and to be a mother? They are being hijacked for someone who is not biologically a female. And because a Liberal MP turns up at a rally to voice the concerns of women, you actually make the statement—

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