Senator STOKER (Queensland) (15:10): I rise to take note of the matters raised by Senator Kitching, and it is with some amusement. I accept that 'amusement is a strange word to use in the circumstances, because security is such an important subject, and yet here we are with almost every question being raised by the opposition in question time dealing with the slurs against Ms Liu in circumstances where the emperor really doesn't have any clothes. We need only look to some of the coverage that this issue has received over the last few days to get a sense of just how empty the Labor Party's approach is at the moment. They don't have any substance on the economy, so they want to talk about this. They don't have any substance when it comes to climate policy; they're divided and confused. Some of them want to keep a 45 per cent emissions reduction target by 2030—that's Ms Plibersek. Others, like Mr Conroy, want to change and go to a 2050 net zero pollution target. Mr Butler wants to ditch the 45 per cent target, but in favour of what? Who knows! Mr Fitzgibbon says, 'We need to talk about the elephant in the room—our dud policy on climate, but nobody really knows what to replace it with. If we can just talk about Ms Liu enough, maybe no-one will notice that we're saying, "Look, a unicorn!" and asking people to look in the other direction.' Because the truth is: they've got nothing in the cupboard. It goes without saying that we are doing the heavy lifting on these difficult issues—getting the balance right between our need for economic development and our need for environmental protection. We are getting on with the job in a no-nonsense, no-grandstanding kind of way—exceeding Kyoto targets, meeting our Paris commitments, and doing it all with a growing economy rather than devastating it, like Labor's 45 per cent emissions reduction target would have done. But all of this goes to the heart of the matter, and that is: Labor have got nothing to offer. They're the same on the economy, too. They don't know what they want. Do they still want a high-tax, high-spend agenda, or are they going to listen to the Australians who said, 'That just isn't the way we work'? Well, at the moment, they don't know. So, again, they point to the unicorn over there—'Quick! Look over there!'—because they've got nothing to offer. Ms Liu is a first-term MP. I've only been in this place a short period of time, and I know how nerve-racking it can be to be a new person in this place and to do media interviews. It can be a tough thing to do. She gave a clumsy interview, but they are tricky things to do. But let's not pretend, even for a second, that that means anything like what the circumstances of former Senator Dastyari looked like. That was a wildly, wildly different situation. Let's have a look at the facts here. Ms Liu is a woman of Chinese heritage, born in Hong Kong. She came here with just two suitcases and has started a life for herself. She's overcome disability. She's overcome domestic violence. She's overcome so many of the barriers that people from different races in this country face as they try and be heard in the public square. Yet she has done it, and she has made it all the way to the parliament of Australia in what is really a milestone. She's run a small business. She's come here to get an education. She's created something beautiful for her and her family. And you know what? That speaks to the stories of the 1.2 million Australians of Chinese heritage who have made their home here—who do it with a loyalty to Australia, who do it understanding where they've come from and acknowledging that culture, and who are often involved in organisations that reflect their connection to that culture but with their heart here in Australia. That's one of the really exciting things about a multicultural Australia—something that shouldn't be turned into a cheap shot. It's very different to anything that could be compared to Mr Dastyari's situation: she hasn't got anyone to pay her personal expenses—she hasn't got foreign nationals to do that; she hasn't changed her position on issues, doing the bidding of people from another nation; and she hasn't done it using the crest of this place. No—she's a Hong Kong-born Australian, doing her best to represent the people of Chisholm to the best of her ability in this place.