Brett Mason (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Universities and Research) Share this | Hansard source

Outside this chamber, 95 per cent of Australians would support this motion. Writing of last Saturday's protests, the Green Left Weekly published this:

… the police goaded the protesters, in particular the youth, and so the police are responsible for the clashes that took place.

That is what the Green Left Weekly said. Is there anything more toxic in the politics of this country than the self-loathing of the Green Left Weekly and the moral vanity of the Australian Left, both beholden as they are, as they always have been, to outmoded notions of political correctness? This motion should pass with the authority of the entire Senate. If it does not, it will be an absolute and utter disgrace.