Richard shows himself to be a hater of the truth. He does not wish to be seen disrespecting the truth, so he disrespects Pauline Hanson, whose outstanding feature is her honesty.
She is always compelled to tell the truth, unlike Richard, who, having no valid criticism of her, tells the ridiculous, unsupportable lie, that she is "an idiot".

I think you all need to have a bex and a lie down, how many senators were absent.
what a difference a tight elections makes....
"Workplace Relations Minister Tony Abbott last night apologised for not fully disclosing his involvement in a $100,000 "slush fund" devised in 1998 to bring down One Nation leader Pauline Hanson.
Mr Abbott strongly denied, in an ABC Four Corners interview on August 10, 1998, that he or any Liberal Party figures had been involved in funding the legal campaign by disaffected One Nation members to have the minor party declared invalid under electoral laws.
But last night's statement confirms that only two weeks after making that denial, he established a formal trust, Australians for Honest Politics, which collected $100,000 to funnel into anti-One Nation legal actions.
Mr Abbott confirmed that at the time of making the statements to Four Corners, he had already promised to underwrite the legal costs of disaffected One Nation litigant Terry Sharples.
"Strictly speaking, no money at all had been offered," Mr Abbott said last night.
"The lawyers I organised were acting without charge and the support for costs which I had promised would only become an issue in the event of a costs order being made against Sharples."
Mr Abbott apologised for the "flippancy" of remarks he made to the Sydney Morning Herald in 2000."

Runner so much christian love.

In 1998, Tony Abbott had established a trust fund called
"Australians for Honest Politics Trust"
to help bankroll civil court cases against the One Nation Party and Hanson herself.

Its going to be fun for the next three years if the Libs last that long.

Now if they can only walk out during the Plebiscite Vote. That would be good.

Considering that parliament is now little more than an absurdist theatre where all of the dramatist personae strut their stuff like adolescent hoons, or like dogs and male cats pissing in the corners marking out their territory I fail to see any real substance in the faux outrage in response to this really insignificant incident of those on the right side of the culture wars shouting match.

Meanwhile, not so long ago the then leader of the opposition and other self righteous "religious" zealots were effectively calling, on the steps of Parliament House for the then Prime Minister Julia Gillard to be murdered. Their signs and callings at the demonstration/rally were very entirely congruent with Alan Jones statement that Julia should be put in a sack and thrown into the sea, and thus to be drowned, or more correctly murdered.

I dont remember any so called conservatives being outraged by this toxic happening.