Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that while speaking about the government's watering down of protections against racist hate speech, One Nation senator Malcolm Roberts said he is very happy the government is starting to follow One Nation, and Liberal senator James Paterson said it would help win back One Nation votes. Was it One Nation or the conservative backbench who convinced the Prime Minister to abandon his long-held beliefs and instead to water down protections against racist hate speech, or was it both?

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