Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

She came in late. Basically, Senator Hanson-Young is a great actress—a really great actress. So she will get up and she will make her comments here. Talking about making sexist statements in this chamber or accusing others in this chamber of constantly having a go at Sarah Hanson-Young, the senator, or at the Greens is hypocritical, because, constantly, over the last 2½ years, I have had comments thrown at me, constantly, all the time, on how I am a racist. And other comments have been made towards me. I just see this as crocodile tears, as theatrical and to get sympathy. And using the 'sexist' tag because she's a female doesn't wash, with me or a lot of other people.

People are absolutely fed up with what happens in the chamber. They don't want to see this from us, the leaders of this nation. I just think it's so wrong. The chamber voted correctly to suspend Senator Di Natale. He made comments towards Senator O'Sullivan that were very much uncalled for and shouldn't have been said. So, I'd say to the Greens: it's a two-way street in here. You can't keep dishing it out to everyone else and not expect to get the same back. We all have a place in this parliament. We've all been voted in by the Australian people, and we all should have respect for each other. We may not agree on political views or issues, but the fact is that we all have the right to have a say in this chamber—