Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

From time to time one is somewhat surprised by the nature of questions in this chamber, and this happens to be one of those occasions. Is the senator seriously suggesting that anyone in this chamber would do anything other than condemn the violence by personnel on Christmas Island—the attempts to inflict violence on officers of the Commonwealth? And would anyone seriously suggest that anybody in this chamber would do anything other than say that that is totally inappropriate? For any question to propose anything to the contrary is, I would say, to insult the intelligence of every senator in this chamber.