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

Mr Acting Deputy President, I do not want to make your position difficult, but there are no remarks that I have made that I am prepared to withdraw. These are matters on the public record of which Senator Rhiannon has had ample opportunity to resist; she has not. If I am now not entitled to speak of matters that have been well aired publicly over decades, then what am I here for? I do not want to make your position—

Senator Cameron interjecting—

Let me finish. I do not want to make—