Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development) Share this | Hansard source

There's been a lot of chat in the chamber today about sovereignty, but there is one thing our Australian Constitution makes clear. I think it's why we are the envy of the world and why so many people from war-torn places across the globe seek to make this place their home and risk life and limb to actually become citizens. For them and subsequent generations, whether you arrived as convicts, whether you arrived as clearances from the Scottish Highlands, whether you arrived as Vietnamese boat people or whether you arrived for the Snowy Mountains Scheme after World War II—accepting, recognising, that there were people here before the rest of us got here—no matter how you got here, our Constitution—

I would appreciate, Senator Whish-Wilson, if you would not continually deride, denigrate and attack people that have a different view to you. We live in a democracy. It is actually why people seek to join us.