Nicola Roxon (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

The point that I am simply trying to make is that national security is much more than jokes about shoe phones or jokes about other things. National security is about protecting real people from real threats, about making sure that our laws are operating properly, and I would have thought that those opposite would want to dissociate themselves from comments like this that just feed conspiracy theories and do us no justice when we want to work closely with those around the world to share intelligence about real threats that are emerging across the world. What I am calling upon the opposition to do is to make sure the Leader of the Opposition calls Mr Palmer and gives him a dressing down for this sort of behaviour—and he can use his shoe phone if he thinks that is a better idea.

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