Ralph Babet (Victoria, United Australia Party) Share this | Hansard source

We just heard from the senator opposite that this is not legitimate protest action. I would argue against that. I would say it absolutely is legitimate protest action—from the Left, anyway. The Left love to harass, love to harangue and love to show up at your home or your business and cancel you. The Left is the enemy of all good and decent people in this nation—in the world, actually.

Obviously, I rise here today to support Senator Cash's reference to the Environment and Communications References Committee. Why wouldn't I? Of course you would. Of course I would support my Liberal Party colleagues. I'll go one further. How about this? How about we defund the ABC? How about that one? Defund the ABC. I'm sick of the ABC. All the ABC do is left-wing, brainwashing, propaganda garbage. That's what the ABC is; it's garbage. Break it up into little pieces and sell it to the lowest bidder—not even the highest bidder, the lowest bidder. That's all they're good for.

There are certainties in life. What are those certainties, my Senate colleagues? I'll tell you what they are: life, death and taxes. That's what they are: life, death and taxes. And I'll add one more: the ABC behaving like a law unto itself. There's another one for you. Add that to the list. Here we are today—another day, another scandal from the national broadcaster. Hopefully, it's not the national broadcaster for too much longer. I dream of the day when the coalition or the United Australia Party is back in power and—do you know what we do?—we defund them. That's what we'd do. I would support that. Straight to trash heap of history! That's where they belong—the trash heap of history. Ita Buttrose, I hope you're watching. That's where you're going. With the ABC falsely labelling—