Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

No answers. Minister, in his valedictory speech yesterday, former Attorney-General Senator Brandis said that powerful elements of right-wing politics have abandoned the liberal tradition 'in favour of a belligerent, intolerant populism which shows no respect for either the rights of individual citizens or the traditional institutions which protect them.' Can you confirm that this is the government's official ideology now that he is gone?