Cory Bernardi (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Simms, I suggest it is your fixation on me. Nary a speech can transpire in this place without your indecent obsession and focus on me.

I know that Senator Simms has a particular focus at the moment, and that is trying to get rid of Senator Hanson-Young in a preselection contest. I know there is a secret ballot there. I am prepared to say that Senator Simms is more open minded than Senator Hanson-Young and deserves the support of the Greens party in the No. 1 preference, because Senator Hanson-Young has been so callous in her cavalier disregard for the people travelling here on boats and the people who have been drowning at sea. But it is incumbent on Senator Simms to stop focusing on his own self-obsessions. It is time for him to focus on the Australian people. It is time for him to confront the reality of the circumstances that he is now endorsing. There is no doubt the Safe Schools program was implemented by an avowed Marxist named Roz Ward. There is no doubt whatsoever that Senator Simms—