Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

This morning the whole nation would have been proud of this parliament because of the apology for forced adoptions meant so much to so many people. There were at least 800 to 1,000 people here in the Great Hall, and around the country many hundreds of thousands more: watching, reflecting and thinking about what had happened and being given, for once, some leadership from the parliament across all parties, saying, 'We are sorry; we care.'

I think it is really a very sad thing that the apology this morning is now being overshadowed by stunts such as this and by the behaviour that is—

Opposition senators interjecting—