Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to move a motion to provide for the consideration of a motion relating to the censure of a senator.

Leave granted.

I thank the Senate. I move:

That the motion circulated in the chamber be moved immediately and have precedence over all other matters.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is the motion as moved by Senator Wong be agreed to.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(1) Notes that:

(a) on Monday 24 November 2025, Senator Hanson engaged in behaviour in the chamber that was intended to vilify and mock people on the basis of their religion;

(b) Senator Hanson's actions were disrespectful to Muslim Australians;

(c) Senator Hanson's actions disrespected the Parliament and were inconsistent with the standards of behaviour that all parliamentarians have an obligation to uphold;

(d) Senator Hanson further disrespected the Senate by refusing to obey the ruling of the chair;

(e) the Senate then took the extraordinary step of suspending Senator Hanson for the remainder of the sitting day;

(f) Senator Hanson refused to comply with the Senate's order and leave the chamber, requiring the sitting of the Senate to be suspended; and

(g) Senator Hanson's actions were contrary to the standing orders, a blatant disregard for the authority of the Senate President and disrespected her Senate colleagues and the people they represent.

(2) Affirms that Australia has been built by people of every race and faith.

(3) Reaffirms that Australia is a nation that welcomes different races, religions and views, united by respect for each other and each other's right to live in peace.

(4) Rejects any attempt to vilify or mock people on the basis of religion.

(5) Reiterates its solidarity with those who have been vilified because of their faith.

(6) Reaffirms that all parliamentarians have a role to play in upholding appropriate standards of behaviour in Parliament.

(7) Calls on those who work in and report on this Chamber to ensure they are not causing harm or platforming harmful actions.

(8) Censures Senator Hanson for her actions, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people.

(9) Does not regard it as appropriate for Senator Hanson to represent the Senate as a member of any delegation during the life of this Parliament.

(10) Considers Senator Hanson's conduct in defying the ruling of the chair and refusal to leave the chamber following her suspension amounts to further disorder under standing order 203.

(11) Calls upon Senator Hanson to attend the Senate immediately to make an explanation or apology, of no more than 5 minutes, in accordance with standing order 203(3).

I thank the Senate for the support for enabling this debate. Colleagues, after what occurred yesterday, someone I'm close to, this morning, spoke about a conversation with her seven-year-old daughter last night. Her daughter asked, 'Mummy, do all Christians hate Muslims?' That summarised where we found ourselves. We see it again. You see, I grew up in an Australia where my brother and I were the only Asians at school, and I have spoken at length about what that was like. But, Senator, I would also speak to you about my family: my father converted to Catholicism; my beloved grandmother, a devout Buddhist; my mum, a somewhat lapsed Methodist; and cousins who are Muslim. We are a family of many faiths, as is our country.

This is modern Australia. An Australia that is stronger because we are united at home. An Australia that is stronger in the world because we are united at home. Stronger in the world because our multicultural society gives us the ability to reach into every corner of the world and find common ground, a nation built, Senator Babet, by people of every race and every faith—every race and every faith. A nation that welcomes different races, different religions, different views. A nation united by respect for each other and each other's right to live in peace. A nation where kids can grow up seeing themselves in their leaders. A nation where kids don't get mocked or threatened or vilified because of who they are, who aren't afraid for their safety on a bus home from school and who don't come home to find it covered in abuse. I know how that feels, coming home as a kid to racist graffiti on the driveway.

Whatever Senator Hanson may tell herself, it is people like this who suffer because of her immature and shameless stunt—and that is all it was. Senator Hanson has been parading prejudice as protest for decades. In her first speech to this house, she said Australia was in danger of being swamped by Asians, by people like me. Now she's added Muslims to the list. In my very first speech in this place, I said that because of people like her Australia was in danger of being swamped by hatred. And yesterday, purely to get attention, and not for the first time—it's an old play, replayed—Senator Hanson mocked and vilified an entire faith—a faith observed by nearly one million Australians, and the second-largest religion in this country.

Colleagues, senators, freedom of expression is central to who we are as Australians, but so too is respect. I believe, and I think most of this Senate believes, that disrespecting fellow Australians because of their faith is itself un-Australian. For a senator to punch down on a Muslim kid—that's the effect of your words—let's understand that that is un-Australian.

Senator Hanson makes absurd comments about people's clothing being a risk to national security at the same time as she's publishing internal floor plans of Parliament House on the internet. Our national cohesion is a strength. Our national security is risked by threats to social cohesion, because a divided nation is a vulnerable nation. We need to remind ourselves of what Senator Brandis spoke about when this stunt last occurred. As he stood against your stunt then, and he was right to do so, he spoke about the importance of working with the Muslim community in the interest of Australian national security. Senator Hanson's hateful and shallow pageantry tears at our social fabric, and I believe it makes Australia weaker. It also has cruel consequences for many of our most vulnerable, including in our schoolyards, who should be able to look to us in this place to set an example.

I want to end on this point. If this Senate passes the requirement for an apology, to enable Senator Hanson to do so promptly, can I indicate to the Senate I will move that this motion be put after 30 minutes of debate. I want to end on this point—that is, people should be able to look to this place to set an example. This can be a robust place. This can be a place of great contest. It should be. But there should be guardrails, as I have spoken about before. There should be the recognition of the importance of civility, even where there is contest. There should be limits on what we do and what we say, and what we saw yesterday was all of those boundaries crossed willingly.

The institution itself was damaged by your behaviour yesterday, because not only did you do what you did, Senator, but the chamber—the President—asked you to remove that item of clothing, and you refused a direct direction from the chair. And then, even worse, when all of your colleagues in this place—or so many, the vast majority—under the standing orders told you to remove yourself because you were defying a direction of the President, you defied the whole Senate and stayed. I have never seen that. I have never seen someone be so disrespectful to this institution.

So we have given you the opportunity, should this motion pass, to apologise. And I give you fair notice, Senator Hanson: if that fails to occur or if it's not to the Senate's satisfaction, we will take the next step of action that is available to the Senate under the standing orders. I thank the Senate, and I indicate, as I said, I will seek to close this debate after half an hour.

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Senator Ruston?

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

Thank you very much, President. In standing to speak to the motion that's before the chair, I would like to move an amendment to the motion moved by Senator Wong. The amendment that we are seeking to move is done out of complete respect for everybody in this chamber and for everybody in this country, because we believe that we must in in this place understand and tolerate the views of everybody in this chamber. But, in doing so, we must do it in a respectful way.

We know that Australia is a culturally and religiously diverse nation. Those values have contributed to this country, and every citizen has a role to play in the cultural diversity of this nation and the strength that it draws from that diversity. For Australia to be recognised as a place where people can live their lives according to their beliefs and their culture, and to be what can be rightly considered one of the most culturally successful nations on this planet, it so, so, important that, when we come into this place, our actions, behaviours and words all reflect what we would like to see as our proud society.

Fundamental to that absolutely has to be respect for everybody. What we do in here is a reflection of what happens out there. We are elected to this place to be leaders in this country. Our actions are important, and I say that to every single member of this chamber. Our actions are important, and you can't come in here and accuse someone of doing something on one side of the chamber and then do the very same thing yourself.

So today we've sought to move an amendment to this motion, because, as the motion says, this nation has been built on the multicultural values of this country—every race and every faith that lives here. We absolutely are a country that is welcoming of every religion and its views, and respect for each other is fundamental to that. Of course, we reject any disrespect, any vilification and any discrimination in this nation, no matter what the basis. As I said, we must reaffirm that parliamentarians have a role to play in upholding appropriate standards, because what we do here is what we cannot expect others in our community to do if we are not prepared to uphold it in this place.

We also need to understand that a safe workplace is absolutely fundamental. It's not just about us; it's also about our staff and all the staff of the Senate. We need to consider them. When our behaviour, in any way, jeopardises, threatens or insults our staff we also have a responsibility for that, because in this place we set the example for Australia.

In speaking to this, we believe the precedent was set in the past in relation to somebody being suspended for an action in this place. We saw it happen with Senator Thorpe in relation to her aggressive behaviour towards another senator in this place, and that suspension took place and was acted upon immediately. We also saw a situation occur with the suspension in relation to Senator Di Natale when he refused to accept the ruling of the then chair, Senator Parry, and action was taken appropriately at the time. We do not believe we should be coming into this place to repechage your decision of yesterday, President. The process was undertaken, the will of the chamber was expressed and the senator in question was required to take the action as expressed by you. We absolutely support you in your decision and we also support you every time that your actions or your rulings are disregarded.

I say to everybody in this place: we are elected by the Australian public because they expect us to come here and do things that are important for them. I don't believe the actions of the other end of the chamber reflect what the Australian public wants us to be doing in this place. They want us to be concerned about the issues that they are facing every day. They can't afford to pay their bills. They can't pay their power bills. They can't get in to see a doctor. They can't afford to buy a house. They are struggling to raise their families. They are the issues the Australian public want us to be addressing in this place. As a party of government that is exactly what we want to be doing in this place, as the coalition. We want to be prosecuting the issues that matter to everyday Australians.

That doesn't mean to say we don't take very seriously the importance of respect in relation to the conventions in this place. We have respect for those conventions, respect for this chamber, respect for this parliament and respect for every single Australian. I move the amendment, as circulated in my name in the chamber:

Omit all words after 'That the Senate—' and insert:

(a) affirms that Australia has been built by people of every race and faith;

(b) reaffirms that Australia is a nation that welcomes different races, religions and views, united by respect for each other and each other's right to live in peace;

(c) rejects any attempt to vilify or mock people because of religion;

(d) reiterates its solidarity with those who have been vilified because of their faith;

(e) reaffirms that all parliamentarians have a role to play in upholding appropriate standards of behaviour in Parliament; and

(f) calls on those who work in and report on this chamber to ensure they are not causing harm or platforming harmful actions.

I believe the amendment appropriately reaffirms the commitment that every single one of us should have to Australia and the respect that we should have for every member of our community.

Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Finally, after three decades of piling hate and racism on Muslims, Asians and people of colour, at least some of us in this chamber want to hold Senator Hanson to account. Of course, the decades of harm that One Nation and Senator Hanson have caused to people of colour, Muslims and Asians by her racism and dog whistling won't be taken away by this motion, but it is a start.

Eight years ago, when Senator Hanson did this pathetic stunt for the first time, there was no Muslim in this chamber. There were no Muslim women in this chamber. There are two of us now, and we have been making sure—and we will make sure in the future as well—that racism and Islamophobia is called out every time and that people who perpetrate it are held to account.

It says so much about those sitting opposite me. They talk this talk of a wonderful multicultural nation. I must say that when I came here first, in 1992, I did think that the richness of people that came here from all parts of the world was what made this country so fantastic. But you can't just speak words. You can't just speak words and not call out what is actually happening—

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Faruqi, please resume your seat. I've asked you to resume your seat.

Honourable senators interjecting—

Senator Faruqi, I've asked you to resume your seat. This debate will be heard in respectful silence.

No, Senator Canavan! If you can't do that, leave the chamber. There will be no interjections and no comments from anywhere. I want to be very clear about that. When I request a senator to sit down, Senator Faruqi, that's exactly what you do. Senator Canavan, when I say to you 'no interjections', that is exactly what I mean. Your leader has just been on her feet saying, 'We support what the President does.' That means, when I require you to be quiet, you are quiet. Senator Faruqi, please continue.

Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The coalition try to talk the talk, but when it actually comes to the crux of it, they want to remove anything of consequence in this motion and talk in abstract terms about everyone being respectful to everyone else. Sure, we should all be respectful, but this is a particular instance where the motion says that this one senator has vilified and mocked people based on their Muslim religion. It talks about disrespecting Muslim Australians. It talks about disrespecting parliament. So you want to remove all of that, and you just want to talk about respecting each other. Well, this is where respecting each other and just talking the talk has got us. This parliament drips now in racism because for decades politicians—and both major parties, can I say—let it happen. Today, there's a senator here who effectively said that he hates Muslims. That is what it has come down to because you all let it happen, and I won't let that go. I won't let that go, because for years Muslims have been warning you all that, if we don't deal with this now, this is where it'll end up. Christchurch happened when an Australian man mercilessly murdered 51 Muslims. This country did nothing. The dog whistling on migrants goes on. The dog whistling on refugees goes on. It's done by both major parties. It's done by the media. That is what has legitimised what we see in this chamber almost every other day.

Yes, this motion is good. It's finally holding someone to account. It's finally holding Senator Pauline Hanson to account for the pathetic old tactic that she used in the chamber yesterday. Yes, that's a step forward, but there is so much more to be done. On the minister's shelf there is a road map that has been gathering dust for the last 12 months—the National Anti-Racism Framework. Take that off the shelf, dust it off, put funding into it, and start implementing it right now. If you say that there are some red lines and that one red line is racism and discrimination, then do something about it. Nazis are literally marching on our streets, and that is being allowed to happen in New South Wales by the New South Wales Labor government. A motion is good, but that is nowhere near what we need to do.

Every single person in this chamber should be forced to do antiracism training. That has been a recommendation for a long time of various committees and frameworks. Let's start there. At the end of the day, unless discrimination, racism and inequity for First Nations people are ended, nothing will change, because this country was built on violence, on racism and on discrimination against First Nations people.

Today, as a Muslim woman who has faced this racism and discrimination from the day she stepped into public life, I plead with you to act on it, because it gives me no pleasure to say I warned you, when I stepped into this parliament, about where the normalisation and legitimisation of racism would lead to. Let this motion today be a wake-up call. Let this be the start of actually dealing with structural and systemic racism that pervades this country. Let that be grounded in justice for First Nations people.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Before I call Senator McKenzie, I'm not having advisers at the back of the chamber walk around. If an adviser is in here, they are sitting in the box, not standing up. It's a privilege to be in here.

Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to speak to Senator Ruston's amendment moved on behalf of the coalition. It affirms that Australia has been built by people of every race and faith, Senator Faruqi, through the chair, including white Australians. It reaffirms that Australia is a nation that welcomes different races, religions and views, and is united by respect for each other and each other's right to live in peace. Moving motions here, pointing the finger across the chamber and calling each other racists does nothing to move our joint cause forward, which is to continue to be the most successful multicultural nation on the globe. When you stand up and say 'all you white people' are somehow the problem, it does—

Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

You are!

Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

There you go!

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm sorry, Senator McKenzie. Senator Canavan and Senator Thorpe, you are being rude to the point that I have to interrupt a senator's contribution. This debate is talking about respect. Show respect for one another, whether you agree with the opinion or not.

Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you. It is beholden on us to demonstrate this unity in this chamber, in how we raise our children and in how we conduct ourselves in our communities, our streets and our country towns in a way that affirms the promise that Australia gives everybody, whether it's Senator Wong's family, who came here for a better future, or my own family, who came here for a better future. That is the promise.

Our motion also reaffirms that all parliamentarians have a role to play in upholding appropriate standards of behaviour in parliament. The very respect for diversity that we call on today in both motions before the chair and the very freedom to practise our faiths in this country are built on Judeo-Christian values. Those are the values that mean we can have these debates. We can respectfully listen to a diversity of views. Muslim Australians, Christian Australians, Buddhist Australians, atheists, can live their lives in safety and security.

For the last couple of years, we've been debating how Jewish Australians have been impacted by issues overseas and their right to worship in our suburbs and our cities. This is, as Senator Faruqi laid out, having a real impact out there in our communities, and not just for Muslim Australians. The values that allow us to have these debates, hopefully respectfully, here and outside, are not reflected in so many countries around the world, like North Korea, Somalia, Libya, Sudan or Nigeria, where 4,000 Christians were killed in 2024. We do not have that issue in our beautiful democracy at the moment, and nor should we wish it upon us. But the challenges that we see overseas, whether it is the persecution of people of faith, such as Christians in places like Nigeria, the impact of migration in Europe or, particularly, the United Kingdom, or in nations that have decided to ban the burqa—these are debates that we should have honestly and respectfully here in this country, not where we choose to appropriate religious symbols for political purposes. I think there is a need for respectful and honest debate about migration and values in this country, but this chamber needs to be a place where all the diversity of opinions that our great country holds—and they're very wide, diverse opinions—is expressed. If you don't want to listen, as the President often says to me, and if you can't listen in silence, leave the chamber; the contribution needs to be made anyway. People will violently disagree with my views on migration, on values, and the number of people that need to come in. They don't have to listen to me. But I do have a right and also a responsibility to express that view in this chamber. That's what this chamber's for.

I think, without violence, without murdering people of faith, without blowing up places of worship, we have a responsibility as senators, as executive, as citizens, as parents and as community members to be the very best leaders that we can be, not just in this chamber but outside of this chamber too. So I hope that all of us can honour the people and the diversity of views that have sent us all here and support the coalition's motion, which seeks to uphold our traditions and respectful debate here in the chamber, not the disrespectful way in which it was conducted yesterday.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I rise to make a few short remarks. Senator Wong foreshadowed that we would seek to close debate after 30 minutes, which we are up against now. I think we have a moment here today, really, to stand together and say that what happened yesterday, the stunt by Senator Hanson, was wrong, it was hurtful to many in this place and it punched down and vilified Australian Muslims, and it has consequences. It has consequences that reach out far beyond the walls of this place, and Senator Hanson knows that. Because of that, we find ourselves here today, again, seeking to show leadership and to take a stand about what happened yesterday, which was wrong. All of us should be working to stand together on that.

In the course of the debate, Senator Faruqi made some assertions that were incorrect. So I do feel, because of the nature of this debate and because of what was said, that we should make it very clear that, when the Christchurch killings happened, there was a motion passed in this place and significant comments were made at that time, as I recall. In fact, it was a time passed for this place. It was when the former Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Cormann, worked with the former Leader of the Opposition, Senator Wong, to make sure that this place put on the record exactly what we thought about that. To suggest that nothing happened at that time and that we didn't stand with people of Muslim faith and place on the record our complete and total rejection of what the perpetrator of that massacre stood for is incorrect. Again, the Senate stood together, against Senator Anning when he made unacceptable and appalling comments. The motion was clear and was moved, actually, in that instance by Senator Cormann and Senator Wong, working together across the chamber—again, the Senate making a stand, showing leadership, doing the job that the people of Australia send us here to do. It's to pull people together and to unite the country, not just seek to pick fights and vilify and punch down on particular groups for fun, for content, for a stunt. That's not what they send us here to do. And to Senator Faruqi I would say the same thing: it doesn't do your cause any progress at all by attacking—

Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Independent) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's not about Senator Faruqi.

Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

No—I'm making the point about some comments that were made, where this Senate has stood together to reject racism, vilification and the targeting of particular groups. I'll leave it there, and I move:

That the question be now put.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the closure motion as moved by Minister Gallagher be agreed to.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the amendment moved by Senator Ruston be agreed to.

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

I seek to have parts of the motion moved by Senator Wong put separately. I ask that paragraphs (1)(a), (8), (9) and (10) be put separately from paragraphs (1)(b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and (g), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (11).

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that (1)(a), (8), (9) and (10) of the motion as moved by Senator Wong and requested to be split by Senator Ruston be agreed to.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the remainder of the motion as moved by Senator Wong be agreed to.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson, in accordance with the order just passed, I call on you to make an explanation or apology in accordance with standing order 203(3). I ask the clocks be set for five minutes.

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My comments are basically going to be directed to the Australian people and those in the Senate that are here today to hear my comments. I am pleased now to be given the opportunity to explain myself. I was denied that right yesterday. Yesterday I brought up a bill to amend the Criminal Code to ban the burqa and full-face coverings in public places. I was denied the right to move that bill—denied the right. I was elected a member of parliament by the people of Queensland to represent them and the whole of the nation, actually, for that matter. I was denied the right by the Senate to move my bill, to actually debate it on the floor of parliament. You denied me and the people of Australia to have that voice. You chose to shut it down.

This is not the first time you've done it to me. You've done it a number of times. The parliamentarians that are here—the senators that were elected by the Australian people—dare question me over my respect for this place? The senators in this place have no respect for the Australian people when they have an elected member who wants to move something and to represent them and have a say. If there was no concern over banning of the burqa or full-face coverings, why did you stop me? Why not have the debate? Why not put your case forward? I would put my case forward, but you wouldn't even allow that. You decided what you wanted based on your pure own ideology of what you think is right. You disregard the people of this nation by not allowing me to have a say on their behalf. This has been raised to me many times.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson, could you direct your comments to me, please.

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes. Also what I want to raise is that even recently, on Australian National Flag Day, I and one other senator draped the Australian flag across our shoulders. We were told to remove it by those that it offended. In this place, the heart of our democracy, we can't even show any love or respect for our flag, which flies in the chamber. But, no, others wanted it removed, and that was the Greens. They wanted it removed because they didn't want it seen.

Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's a prop.

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

When you actually—

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson, I'm sorry; would you resume your seat for a moment. Senator Hanson will be heard in silence. If you can't give her that respect, leave the chamber. There will be no calling out.

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you very much. This censure motion, at (8), says:

Censures Senator Hanson for her actions, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people.

I reject that completely. To say that I don't have respect for people of faith—I reject that as well. I have stood up for the Jewish people of this community. I'm not Jewish. But the way they were treated by some of the people in this chamber, including the Greens wearing a keffiyeh, wasn't pulled up at all. The whole fact is that everyone has a right to their own faith, and I respect section 116 of the Australian Constitution, where the Commonwealth cannot impose any religious observance on anyone.

I must inform my fellow senators who say the burqa is a religious requirement that it's not. Wearing the burqa is not a religious requirement. The burqa is culturally worn by some people of Islamic faith, but it is not a religious requirement. It has been imposed on women who are forced to wear it by their husbands, brothers, fathers, whatever; they're forced to wear it. I think it's so hypocritical that you're supposed to be defending women's rights but you're not fighting for these women being forced to wear a burqa, full-face coverings, against their will.

I think Senator Faruqi is calling the kettle black, after her racism on the floor when protesting against the Palestinians. And I've never called anyone by their skin colour, as I have been accused of. (Time expired)

Mehreen Faruqi (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Where's the apology?

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! My goodness. When I ask for order, it applies to every senator in this place. No-one is excluded.

Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That Senator Hanson be suspended from the sitting of the Senate for seven sitting days.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that the motion moved by Senator Wong be agreed to.

A division having been called and the bells being rung—

Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to cancel that division. The people will judge me at the next election—

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson, come to order!

Leave granted; question agreed to.

S enator Hanson t hen left the chamber.