George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Di Natale, it is because we expect members of parliament to act with integrity. We expect members of parliament to act with integrity, and we saw a fine example of that in this chamber only two hours ago with our former colleague—I'm sorry to say—Jacqui Lambie. And if I may say so, Senator Di Natale, we saw an example of that with your colleagues, or our former colleagues, Greens senators Scott Ludlam and Larissa Waters, and we also saw a fine example of that in the case of Senator Matt Canavan and our former colleague Senator Fiona Nash.

But where we have conspicuously not seen the same example is with the Australian Labor Party, even though we now know on incontrovertible evidence that Justine Keay and Susan Lamb, the members for Braddon and Longman, had not completed the renunciation of their British citizenship at the time of the 2016 election. They have not done the right thing.