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

Senator Gallacher, if you are so concerned about this issue, will the Shorten opposition join with the Turnbull government, Fairfax Media, News Ltd and every significant media organisation in Australia and insist that one of your colleagues who sits there, Senator Dastyari, who has been credibly alleged to be a person who is under foreign interference, and who has engaged in acts of foreign interference, no longer occupy a seat in this parliament? I'll tell you what, Senator Gallacher, if Mr Shorten is so weak, so spineless and so little concerned about national security that he's prepared to sack Senator Dastyari from official positions in the Labor Party—