House debates

Tuesday, 19 June 2018

Questions without Notice

Racial Discrimination Act 1975

2:41 pm

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Is the Prime Minister aware that racist hate speech was hurled during a violent brawl at a Liberal Party meeting last night, with a witness reporting:

They started bashing him and then they took him outside and started kicking at him … To be honest, I thought he was going to die.

Will the Prime Minister refer Liberal Party members using racist hate speech to the Human Rights Commission under section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, notwithstanding his personal objection to that section?

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