Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to add my condemnation of a speech that was delivered in the Senate last night. I follow the words of the Prime Minister, the Leader of the Opposition and all those who have come into this place and unanimously condemned that speech, and I watched some of the speeches in the Senate this morning. All parties have condemned the content of that speech—with the exception of one, who backs the content of that speech '1,000 per cent'. That was Bob Katter doing a live presser out of Cairns on Sky Television this morning. In this place there should be no race to the bottom to see who can hate the most or who can marginalise persecuted people who have come to this country. I had a constituent in my electorate ring me in disgust to say they had seen someone wearing a burqa in the main street of one of my communities and to ask me what I was going to do about it. Clearly I have to take more of a leadership role in ensuring that as a community we love more and hate less.

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