Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. I appreciate your comments. I do want to go back to what I was saying, which was the alleged statement by Senator Bernardi which apparently brought the house down—that is, 200-plus extreme right wingers all gathered to basically ‘burn’ the Leader of the Opposition, Mr Malcolm Turnbull. That is what it was all about. You do not need to be a Rhodes scholar to work out that Senator Bernardi was referring to Mr Turnbull’s previous acquaintance with maybe the Left of politics, his previous desire to be a member of the Labor Party, his association with us—