Louise Pratt (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Senator McKim, if you say the word 'psychopaths' in this place you are indeed very close to the line. When we look to good order and conduct in this place, it is not always exactly where the line is drawn that we should draw it. It is something we need to be aware of more broadly, in terms of pejorative terms about people in this place or, indeed, terms that affect other people in the broader community. Notwithstanding that point, I note that you have at this point said that you will not withdraw, and on that basis it will be referred to the President, unless you would choose to withdraw now.