Senator AYRES (New South Wales) (15:15): Every day, there are new questions raised about the member for Chisholm's affiliations in the past, her actions, her work history and the donations that she solicited for the Victorian Liberal Party. Every day, the government ducks and weaves away from all of these questions. Every day, those opposite try to evade responsibility for what's going on with the member for Chisholm, what the Prime Minister knew and when. We call on the Prime Minister and Gladys Liu to come clean on the donations facilitated by her, by her own account—which were, as she claims, 'very substantial'—and we call on her and the Prime Minister to come clean about her past affiliations. The best place for the member for Chisholm to do that is in the parliament. It certainly didn't go very well on Sky the other night. The interview on Sky the other night wasn't the clumsy interview of a first-term backbencher—I've done a few of those myself recently. When asked questions about what organisations she's been a member of, she did not tell the truth. When she was asked questions about what the Australian position should be in relation to the South China Sea, she refused to commit herself to a position. It's not clumsy; it's far worse than that. She should make a full and complete statement about what's happened. There are strong indications from the material that is now in the public domain that the Prime Minister put winning a marginal seat and internal Victorian factional considerations ahead of Australia's national security. The Prime Minister's response is to smear all those who want answers about the affiliations and the donations swirling around the member for Chisholm, with a disgraceful allegation that the questions are motivated by racist antipathy towards the Chinese community or opportunism. The counterfactual is that nobody should ever ask questions about the member for Chisholm, and I don't think that's acceptable in this place. On this side, we take national security seriously along with our obligations to uphold the duties of parliamentarians to stand up unequivocally for the national interest. This week, again—like last week—there are no plans for the government to deal with the economic challenges that face the country: no economic policy, no energy policy and no climate change policy. The catalogue of zero government policy is seemingly endless, and there are real clouds over the integrity of the Prime Minister, who said on Friday that he had never used the term 'Shanghai Sam' in relation to the conduct of former Senator Dastyari. He did use that term, with all of its dog-whistling connotations, 17 times, including four times in a single sentence, which is a remarkable thing to achieve. At the time he was making it, the Prime Minister thought that the smear against former Senator Dastyari was a real hit. All of the blustering, bullying, bloviating boy from Bondi's behaviour was on full view—all there for everybody to see. Not so much now, it seems! If there are any sensible people left on the other side of the parliament, they should give the Prime Minister a bit of advice: if your only defence of the indefensible is to smear your opponents then you'd better come to the debate with clean hands. The Prime Minister's hands are filthy. We have a Prime Minister who is failing when it comes to integrity. The only person in this conversation who is trying to pretend that what is going on around Gladys Liu is about an entire community is the Prime Minister. We know that, because he's running the paid ads on WeChat already. It's offensive, it's absurd, it's opportunist and, unfortunately for the Prime Minister, it is true to form. All we are asking for and all the community is asking for is an assurance from the Prime Minister that Ms Liu is a fit and proper person to stand in the Australian parliament and that he hasn't put winning a marginal seat and putrid Victorian factional politics ahead of Australia's national security. The member for Chisholm should rise in the parliament, in the House of Representatives, this afternoon and make a full account of these matters. She should do it this afternoon and she should do it without delay. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Ayres, I'd just remind you, when referring to those in the other place, to always use their correct title. Thank you.