Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Unlike Senator Dastyari, I will not be claiming my right to have the Acting Deputy President's protection from interjections, because, as you would know Acting Deputy President O'Neill, it is within the standing orders that where interjections are helpful to debate they are allowed, and I was certainly going to be very helpful to Senator Dastyari! But a senator can claim the protection of the chair, which Senator Dastyari has done. So good on him for claiming that protection! I think it is nice that he feels the need to do that rather than have a genuine debate about it.

There is a reason he did not want to hear it: most of what he was saying was absolute claptrap. There was no truth in it. He was making it up as he went along, and the last thing he would have wanted was an alternative voice in that debate. We do look forward to the New South Wales election. It will be interesting to see whether the Labor Party does better this time than they did when Sam Dastyari was running their campaign! It will be interesting to see the comparison between the two results.