Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—As the person in this chamber whom the reprehensible and disgusting comments were directed to by Senator O'Sullivan, I want to make it very clear that I am thankful to Senator Di Natale for standing up and calling them out. That is what real men do. Real men don't insult and threaten women, they don't slut-shame them and they don't attack them and make them feel bullied in their workplace. I have sat in this chamber for weeks and weeks—months—and heard the disgusting slurs and attacks coming from a particular group in this place, and I for one am sick of it, and I know many of my female colleagues on all sides of politics are sick of it, too. I will name you because you are not fit to be in this chamber, you're not fit to represent your constituents and you're not fit to call yourselves men: Senator O'Sullivan, Senator Anning, Senator Bernardi and Senator Leyonhjelm. You day after day come into this place, hurl insults across this chamber and play the gender card, and, the moment anyone stands up to you, you have the most fragile glass jaws of all. You are cowards. Every time you get called out, you refuse to stand by it.