Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (14:28): Take caution in your tone, Senator Collins. Take caution in your tone, because it seems to me, Senator Collins, that you are now attacking the credibility and the integrity— Senator Jacinta Collins: What about Heydon's tones? The PRESIDENT: Senator Collins, you have asked your question. Senator BRANDIS: of a very distinguished Australian. Mr Heydon withdrew from this function at his own initiative—not, as you dishonestly and sleazily say, having been caught out by the media but on his own initiative, at a time earlier than any report into the matter had surfaced in the media. Take caution in your tone, Senator Collins. You are talking about a justice of the High Court of Australia; a man appointed to the New South Wales Court of Appeal by a Labor state government; an eminent, illustrious Australian legal scholar; a Vinerian scholar; a Rhodes scholar; one of the most eminent and distinguished Australians this country has ever produced. Thank God we have Australians of the integrity and the intellectual weight of Dyson Heydon who are prepared to take up public service, notwithstanding that they subject themselves to the slings and arrows of creatures like you. The PRESIDENT: Senator Brandis, you will have to withdraw that last remark. Senator BRANDIS: I think I meant— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Order on both sides. Senator BRANDIS: We are all God's creatures, but, if Senator Collins takes offence, I withdraw. The PRESIDENT: Thank you, Senator Brandis.