Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

No. I haven't finished my bloody—

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: Sorry, Senator Steele-John. I apologise.

If I could sit down to indicate, you would know that I hadn't finished.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: I apologise.

With the passage of this bill, the Australian disability community will enter a period of shadow, harm, difficulty and, yes, death. A type of life we thought we had escaped will return for many of us. The solidarity that we have built as a community in the fight against this legislation, however, will remain and it will grow. And, as we move together into this period of trial, we shall do so together. We shall not be alone. We shall struggle together. We shall cry together. We shall speak up together. We will protest together. And we will see a parliament elected that will restore our rights and protections together. And there will come a day when these supports are returned, when the government apologises for what it didn't know it was doing, and we will look upon that government and we will state clearly that it did know and that we do in fact hold it fully responsible.