Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you. I start by saying I'm not responsible for how people describe their relationship with me. In Senator Henderson's question she again raises the text messages that have been published in the Australian. When they are raising that, I again ask people to think about what message that is sending out to women right now who are living in dangerous situations and to consider the impact on them. Frankly, we have a bigger job to do in here to protect those women. When they see seemingly illegally accessed documents are then published on the TV and in newspapers and repeated constantly in this place, the message to them is: 'Watch out. Don't open your mouth.' I think that is wrong. I think we have a responsibility to ensure that that isn't the message out of this place.