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

We condemn racism is all its forms, in all circumstances. I condemned it when your Attorney-General stood here and said, 'People have a right to be bigots'. I don't remember any of you condemning it then. We condemned it when you, Senator Cash, and you, Senator Paterson, said that the protections for people in this country against offensive language, language that was designed to offend—we said no to your desire to take those protections out of the Racial Discrimination Act. It is—