Senator HUGHES (New South Wales) (10:47): Gladys is a new member, a fellow member of the class of 2019. The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT ( Senator Bernardi ): Senator Hughes, sorry to interrupt, but I would ask you to refer to the members in the other place by their appropriate title. I have reminded the Senate a couple of times already. Senator HUGHES: The member Chisholm is a new member, a fellow member of the class of 2019. She won in an election that saw the Australian people make a clear choice for the aspirations of all Australians and reject the high tax-and-spend agenda, the politics of envy put forward by the Labor Party. She's a proud Australian and a committed Liberal. As new members we're all learning. I am sure perhaps even those that have been in this place since before I was born can think back and remember what it was like. She made a clunky, ill-worded media performance, and has perhaps not brought a full speech into the chamber. But as a senator from New South Wales, the fact that any Labor member from my state should suggest impropriety, even in this dog-whistling smear of a way, is astounding. In fact, if it were not so offensive, it would be hilarious. This is the party who has boosted the brand of Aldi beyond what any advertising campaign could ever do; who has members currently before ICAC, once again displaying the totally morally bankrupt culture, the 'whatever it takes' Sussex Street attitude that puts Labor not only above the law but apparently above laws that the Labor Party itself introduced. This is the party that must face incredibly awkward caucus meetings here in Canberra; the party of Eddie Obeid, now languishing at Her Majesty's pleasure; the party of Michael Williamson, now reunited with his wife after divorcing her prior to his incarceration and bankruptcy; and the party where the poor member for Kingsford Smith, during his time as state general secretary, was opposed to the elevation of now senator Kristina Keneally to the premiership of New South Wales. I guess, luckily for Senator Keneally, Joe Tripodi and Eddie Obeid could make the calls on her behalf, make the calls and move Mr Thistlethwaite's support away from Frank Sartor. So I'd suggest to those opposite who are smearing a hardworking member, a validly elected member chosen by the good people of Chisholm—the voters of Chisholm who rejected the party of Obeid, the party of Setka, the party of Shorten—who defeated the candidate you thought had already won the seat: have a look at yourself. Perhaps this says more about you and your disgraceful state of affairs. Question agreed to.