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

My question is to the Prime Minister. This morning the Deputy Prime Minister has given an extensive interview to Fairfax papers about the watering down of protections against racist hate speech, an issue he says:

… lives in the extremities of the bell curve. Where do you meet those people? At party meetings, they are absolutely blessed people and they are terribly politically involved and they have an intense interest in some of the minutiae of debate. They come into your office to rant and rave about it, all four of them.

Does the Deputy Prime Minister's statement reflect government policy, and can the Prime Minister name all four?

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