Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

The reality is that we can't be in a position where we create a rule or express a view in such an inconsistent and unnuanced way, particularly not if one of the reasons that people are going to give for putting forward that view is that the men and women of the Australian Defence Force died for certain freedoms. The reality is that the Australian Constitution contains no explicit commitment to or guarantee of freedom of speech. I wish it did, but it doesn't. However, if we are to believe that the men and women of the ADF gave their lives in wars and conflicts to defend such freedoms, then you have to engage with the reality that protesting and painting is a form of speech. It literally, practically is.