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

I find it absolutely disgraceful that you have advocated for a referendum, for the people of Australia, to decide whether this will happen. You are putting the cart before the horse. You are putting this in legislation: that people must be consulted, if they're First Nations people, on legislation that the people of Australia have not approved. That is exactly what you have done. This is only the start of it. You are holding the people of Australia in contempt by what you've put in this legislation. Is that the case? Please answer this. By putting this in the legislation, do you hold the people in contempt? Because you are not prepared to wait till what they say in a referendum that you've already overridden the people of Australia by putting this in legislation that you will consult with them.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: Senator Pratt, we're getting along so nicely.