Tanya Plibersek (Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I think everyone in this House agrees that there is room for humour in this House and in the other place. I think we all agree that there is room for rough and tumble. I think we all know that politics is a business where there is a degree of conflict. But what I am tired of—and what so many women are tired of—is that whenever there is conflict we have the Leader of the Opposition and his senior shadow ministers reverting to this sort of sexist language.

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