Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:12): Senator Gallacher, if you are so concerned about this issue, will the Shorten opposition join with the Turnbull government, Fairfax Media, News Ltd and every significant media organisation in Australia and insist that one of your colleagues who sits there, Senator Dastyari, who has been credibly alleged to be a person who is under foreign interference, and who has engaged in acts of foreign interference, no longer occupy a seat in this parliament? I'll tell you what, Senator Gallacher, if Mr Shorten is so weak, so spineless and so little concerned about national security that he's prepared to sack Senator Dastyari from official positions in the Labor Party— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Brandis, Senator Wong is on her feet on a point of order. Government senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order on my right, so I can hear the point of order. Senator Wong: There was a reference to national security. I invite the Attorney to consider the wisdom of what he said. I invite him to withdraw the reference to national security. The PRESIDENT: Senator Brandis, I'm not aware that there was a unparliamentary statement there. Senator BRANDIS: Credibly alleged. Senator Wong interjecting— Senator BRANDIS: I note what you say, Senator Wong. If Mr Shorten is prepared to conclude that Senator Dastyari is no longer fit to hold a parliamentary position in the Labor Party leadership group in the Senate on the basis of his alleged conduct, why will he, nevertheless, protect him? It is because he's too weak to rid himself of him.