Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Well, you can run that—he has come up with another legal argument! That is the problem with Senator Brandis: he understands words but he does not understand values. He does not understand principles. He is very good at the legalese, but he does not understand principle. The principles he is supposed to stand for, one sees him jettison them constantly when it suits his government or the political objectives of the chief bully, the Prime Minister.

I want to turn now to the pressure on the president of the Human Rights Commission to resign, because that is a disgraceful and a disturbing allegation. We know from evidence—

Honourable senators interjecting—