Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I know the Leader of the Government spoke when moving the procedural motion at the outset. In the case of Senator Thorpe, I made it clear that the opposition's support for the censure was not because we denied her the right to say the things that she said but because we were appalled at the way in which she said them and the time and place in which she sought to pursue those issues.

In the case of this motion of censure of Senator Babet, the words that he has placed on the public record are repugnant, are abhorrent and have no place in proper, orderly civil conduct and debate in 2024. People are free to be warriors—