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But what I do know is this: Decent leaders don’t stir up hatred, pushing us towards bloody anarchy, because that’s exactly what she’s doing.

— Jacqui Lambie, Australian Senator, in remarks responding to One Nation's cartoon mocking her health battle

piss off back to Pakistan.

— From reports on Pauline Hanson's court case, where she was accused of racially vilifying Greens senator Mehreen Faruqi by telling her to 'piss off back to Pakistan'.

No company should use Australian books, music, art or news to build or train AI without the artist’s control. That includes the artist’s control of the price and value of their work. Anything less is theft.

— Anthony Albanese; in a major AI speech announcing the establishment of an AI office and protections for Australian creatives from copyright theft

Under the failed policy of multiculturalism, all cultures are allowed equivalence to ours. Surely opposing that is not racist, it's common sense.

— Senator Pauline Hanson, One Nation leader, in her National Press Club address on multiculturalism.

Not if I got any say in it. It’s radical Islam that is my grave concern.

— Pauline Hanson, during her National Press Club speech in Canberra, addressing concerns about Muslim migration

There has never been a more important time in this country when we need ABC journalists and other content makers to be out in the field, informing Australians. We have a fuel crisis. We have a cost of living crisis.

— Sarah Henderson, Opposition communications spokeswoman, speaking at a press conference outside the ABC Parliament House bureau