Barry O'Sullivan (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am speaking through the chair. I have learned that lesson earlier today. It comes as no surprise that her colleagues in the Australian Labor Party would support the practice of making these allegations, pulling these verbal stunts in this place for cheap publicity. The fact of the matter is that either the senator failed to do primary due diligence with respect to her allegation or she simply invented it. That is a very serious allegation. All that she had to do was the same thing available to 25 million other Australians—