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

First of all, I want to quote Senator Waters. She said: 'Let justice run its course.'6 I want to make a comment that rape is a terrible, terrible, terrible crime. But the answer for any crime is the law and upholding the law. So let justice run its course. I need to note that the Greens are implicitly finding Mr Porter guilty—hung, drawn and quartered, guilty—and yet we have seen no trial. The parliament is responsible for making the laws of our country, the police are responsible for enforcing those laws, and the judiciary is responsible for adjudicating on those laws. We need that process—not to supplant it by a process within this parliament. That is why I oppose it and that is why I want justice to run its course. We see the Greens as abusing parliamentary process. Petitions do not decide ministerial appointments and do not decide whether a minister stays or is removed. That's why we oppose what the Greens are trying to do.