Anne Ruston (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

I think all of us in this place probably need to remember that the respect of this chamber is incumbent on every single one of us. There are ways that you can reflect and express yourself in this chamber without going to the extent that we have seen today. Whilst I respect the very strongly held views of many in this chamber—and many of them differ, and many people have very strong views that are opposed to other people's very strong views—the one thing that we must always do in this place is respect others. I would respectfully suggest to Senator Hanson that this is not the way that you should be addressing this chamber. This is not a respectful way to address other people. Whilst I haven't had in the timeframe the opportunity to reflect on the decision of Senator Parry when he was in the chair or the comments that were made by Senator Brandis when he was the leader of the government in this place, I recall that the foundation of everything that was said by Senator Parry and by Minister Brandis at the time was about respecting this institution and respecting the views of others, not to disrespect them by coming in and performing stunts which have no other purpose than to do that. I think maybe today we should all reflect on respect for each other in this place.