Derryn Hinch (Victoria, Derryn Hinch's Justice Party) Share this | Hansard source

With the federal election looming, I'm starting to think that Senator Hanson and her former colleague Senator Anning are now locked in a race to see who can be the biggest, loudest racist bigot in their contest to see who can get to the bottom of the sewer first. That's what this obscene motion is all about. It could have been written on a piece of toilet paper, which reminds me of that old story about a toilet cleaner. People were nicknamed 'Harpic', because they were clean around the bend.

There are all sorts of things behind this latest stunt by Senator Hanson. She's using this chamber as a conduit for her headline grabbing stunts—just remember the burqa. Senator Hanson knows that this motion will not pass, so she even pre-empted the Senate during the last session when this didn't get up. Senator Hanson tweeted a very clever line—dreamed up by, I imagine, a giggling cohort in the backroom—about 'It's okay to be white' and then went public with it before most of the senators in this chamber had even heard about it. She tweeted it and went on Sky News that night and published it before it was even tabled here in the Senate. I would say that this sort of racism is not only wrong, it could be dangerous— (Time expired)