Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It's regrettable that people with senior positions in this place would think that they shouldn't withdraw that. I'll repeat what I said. Everyone in this chamber condemns child abuse. Everyone in this chamber believes that every child has a right to grow up safe and healthy. Whatever our political views, I don't agree with the way in which it has been put to me—the implication that was put in the question. I will again repeat: every decent person across this country would stand against and does stand against child abuse, so to imply there is anything other than that view across this chamber, I think, is wrong and unfair. What I'm saying is that—

Opposition members interjecting—