I don't know where you're heading with this David. But it's quite a leap to connect discrimination with free speech. Like say, the right to be white and the connotations that has to Nazi philosophies?

And seems yet another barely veiled attempt to avoid manning up and withdrawing and apologising for ungentlemanly speech in parliament, when you used parliamentary privilege to mount a quite scurrilous attack on Senator Hasen-Young.

Time to get out o the 19th century and into the 21st. And out of the Kindy sandpit and into more adult behaviour patterns.

No place in our Parliament for bully boy Nassicsists, who are Always challenged by codes of normal civilised conduct becoming of a gentleman.

Stop with the endless obsfucation and prevarication, man up, and produce a better late than never apology, for your entirely uncalled for conduct.

A wiser man would have started a sustained, irrefutable and enduring campaign for MSR thorium nuclear energy if he really wanted to attack the greens or a green Senator and have them/her out of their/her tree and completely off the rails, rather than visa versa as seems the case here?

And use that, rather than turn to the right, and campaign for far cheaper energy (MSR thorium) to cement a place in the Senate! It's not your eyes or words/promises that tell us you can be trusted, but rather, your actions and the honourable gentlemanly behaviour of a progressive conservative!
Alan B.

A throw-away for Leyno to say "Discrimination is a part of life."

But it is a matter of social structure and perspective on whether discrimination is damaging.

That is, if the already dominant group is discriminating, then that does damage to we, the Majority.

That is the most dominant group are Rich Rightwing White Male Politicians (generally above the law) - then their discriminating attitudes for the Majority, who are less fortunate, does damage.

Poor old Al.

And all the while Al, you actually march on beating the black kettle with a big stick, aligning yourself with the radical left, waving rainbow flags at every opportunity.
Failing abysmally to notice, that through the union movement, the rainbow brigade align themselves with, not Socialism so much, but actually the more radical communism.

Maybe at the next name change you could call yourself uncle Joe, Stalin that is! The one that oversaw the first gas ovens designed to exterminate Jews in Belarus. Staffed by the Russian military personnel of course.
Leaves poor old Adolf and his Nazi swastika in the back ranks actually!

Re: South Africa. The whites used to discriminate against the blacks, now it's the other way around, but that is OK as far as the self-loathing Left is concerned. Perhaps our loony left could be swapped for SA’s white farmers, who would be much more use here than the lefties are. The lefties could then enjoy being discriminated against in South Africa

Gay rights…South African style…

Crisis in South Africa:

The shocking practice of 'corrective rape' - aimed at 'curing' lesbians ... The women were gang raped, tortured, tied up with their underwear and shot in the head.

Such a beautiful place South Africa, stunning scenery....keep your rainbow flags tucked away though...

Thank you, David.

I think that you should campaign in parliament against the misuse of the word 'discrimination': before any serious discussion can begin, the correct term which the "anti-discrimination" lobby actually means, is 'prejudice'.

«discrimination by the government is not the same as discrimination by the private sector.»

Nearly there, but the line should be drawn more accurately:

When members of the "private sector" work for government or receive any financial support from the tax-payer or other similar benefits, or if they declare their business-premises to be "public" (presumably in order to gain public approval), then they should be counted on the "government" side.

Only the truly-private should not be subject to "anti-discrimination" or even "anti-prejudice" laws.
Making this distinction will greatly improve your chances in parliament to actually change the law.