Cory Bernardi (SA, Australian Conservatives) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Hanson asks: where are the feminists? That's crickets chirping you can hear, because they're nowhere to be seen. Virginia Haussegger, an ABC News presenter here in Canberra, once made the point that she thought the burqa should be banned, and she remarked to me once that the vitriol and the abuse that she received in response was unbelievable. So why is it that so many in our country are prepared to surrender our rights, our history, our values, our societal expectations and our cultural heritage in favour of several dozen—maybe several hundred or maybe several thousand—people who want to directly challenge it? That is what I cannot come to terms with.