Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Can the Prime Minister confirm that he said today, about multicultural Australia, 'The key foundation of our success is mutual respect'? Does the sharing of racist and bigoted material, including from extreme right-wing hate groups like Britain First, present a threat to the mutual respect the Prime Minister referred to earlier today?

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The honourable member knows very well that the government and every member of the government and our party have absolutely zero tolerance for racism. I want to say this—

Mr Hill interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Bruce is warned.

Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We in this nation enjoy extraordinary freedoms. Yesterday we were at the Australian War Memorial at the Last Post ceremony, recalling that that place of quiet contemplation and remembrance, which we can see across the lake, remembers and honours the sacrifice—the supreme sacrifice—of over 102,000 Australians who fought to defend our Australian values.

And I want to remind the honourable member that in this parliament on both sides there are men and women who have served Australia in our uniform, putting their lives on the line to defend those values. They haven't just defended them; they've fought for them.