Rebekha Sharkie (Mayo, Nick Xenophon Team) Share this | Hansard source

I will only take a few moments of the parliament. I asked for my name to be added to this motion and I did that because I believe in transparency, I believe in equity and I believe in fairness. There has been ambiguity over my name and many other names. What we saw yesterday with the documentation put forward is that, whether the government likes it or not, there is ambiguity on a number of people's names.

Now, if you believe that you have nothing to hide and if the government believes they have nothing to fear, then the best way forward for every single one of us—so that we can hold our heads high in our communities when we are there on Monday—is to work together in a bipartisan nature and to make sure that every person with a cloud goes to the High Court. This cannot be a place for a protection racket of the highest order, and that is what the Australian community is seeing today. I beg both sides: work together. Let's get the names together and let's go to the High Court together, for we will all hang individually if we don't hang together.

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