Zali Steggall (Warringah, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I wish to raise concern about the arguments raised in this respect around—this is a policy issue, and it's clearly a decision of members of this House to disagree with government policy or to raise an issue in the context of question time around a policy. As such, describing that as politicising an issue is very much what it is. So I would submit that, if that is considered unparliamentary, or grounds for withdrawal or refusal, it would mean any area of policy where there is disagreement becomes something that is objectionable because it is essentially being politicised. So I am concerned at the way in which this is positioned because it's the same as the nature of a policy being racist or anything like that. These are policy differences, and that is the very nature of this place.

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