Senator McKIM (Tasmania) (17:15): I seek leave to make a short statement. The PRESIDENT: Leave is granted for one minute. Senator McKIM: Senator Hanson is right to say that the North Sentinelese people should be left alone. But for Senator Hanson to pretend to take the side of indigenous people anywhere is disingenuous, to say the very least. She's built a decades-long career, leaching taxpayers money, off the back of victimising and degrading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people across this country— The PRESIDENT: Senator Hanson on a point of order? Senator Hanson: I take offence at that comment by Senator McKim, and I want it withdrawn. The PRESIDENT: Senator McKim, I heard you utter words that were a reflection upon Senator Hanson's behaviour, one of them being the word 'leaching' with respect to her. I ask you to withdraw that comment. I don't think that is appropriate or parliamentary. I think it's a reflection upon another senator. Senator McKim interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Now, I may have misheard, but that is the way— Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Let's not go there again. For the comity of the chamber, I ask you to withdraw that, Senator McKim. Senator McKIM: For the comity of the chamber I will, but I will make the point that it is rankly hypocritical for Senator Hanson to pretend to be sticking up for people like the North Sentinelese people, given her record of victimising and degrading Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in Australia. I will also make the point that this motion, put forward by Senator Hanson, is in its own way an attempt to exploit the North Sentinelese people for her own base political purposes—something the motion purports to stand against.