Andrew Bartlett (Queensland, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

You can stand up in favour of using taxpayers’ money to silence people’s right of free speech as much as you like, Senator Abetz. Frankly, if the wool industry genuinely supports this sort of activity—antidemocratic measures which use the power of the state to muzzle free speech and protect businesses against people voicing their concerns about particular practices—they deserve to be boycotted, not for animal cruelty but for supporting the misuse of power by the state and antidemocratic powers. This sort of campaign is no different from the dolphin-free tuna campaign or campaigns against battery eggs or ivory products or even campaigns for GE-free food. (Time expired)