Independent Senator Lidia Thorpe accused of "unparliamentary conduct" after chaotic shouting and defying orders in the Senate.
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00:00 Please resume your seat. The matter is ordered and the matter is finished with.
00:05 I have been watching adjournment since it began.
00:10 Senator Thorpe, resume your seat. I will order that you no longer be heard.
00:24 Senator Polly. I was about to conclude my remarks.
00:30 I have ordered that you no longer be heard. Please resume your seat.
00:49 Senator Polly, please continue. As I was saying, President, I was about to conclude my remarks on
00:56 what I think was— Senator Polly, please resume your seat.
01:02 I want to share some of the words with you. The last time I saw my son Josh, he was in shackles. He was laid out in prison, unlaid to attend his Uncle Bruce's funeral. After the service, as I walked him back to the police van, he stopped to cuddle everyone, and I thought, "Is he going to say goodbye to me or what?"
01:33 Before he got in the van, he turned to me. "I love you, Mum," he said. "I love you too, son," I said. "I'll see you when you come out." "Yeah, Mum, I'll come home." We had the biggest cuddles. Those were our last words.
01:52 Senator—
01:53 Everybody loves you.
01:55 Minister what?
01:56 Thank you, President. I move that the Senate now be adjourned.
01:59 So the question is, as moved by the Minister, is that the Senate adjourned. All those in favour?
02:05 Aye.
02:06 Against? The Senate is adjourned.
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