Senator GALLAGHER (Australian Capital Territory—Minister for the Public Service, Minister for Finance, Minister for Women, Manager of Government Business in the Senate and Vice-President of the Executive Council) (15:08): The government will not be supporting this suspension and this grandstanding by the new Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, who is trying to prove a political point at the expense of an ongoing investigation into a serious threat. This suspension motion talks about being upfront and accountable. This Prime Minister stands up every single day and answers questions— Opposition senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: May I remind those on my left that your leader, Senator Cash, was heard in complete silence, and that same courtesy and respect will be afforded to Senator Gallagher. If you can't give that respect, then leave the chamber. Senator GALLAGHER: The Prime Minister stands up every single day, takes questions and answers questions from any journalist that turns up to his press conferences—unlike Mr Dutton, who never does. If there is anything about leadership that I've understood, it is that a leader is a person who is principled and who stands up, answers and is accountable for every decision that they take. Every time he has been asked about this, the Prime Minister has said that there are two issues that he is focused on: (1) the safety of the Australian people and (2) not to be involved in or to provide commentary on or speculation about an ongoing investigation that is being led by the security agencies and involves combined effort between the AFP and New South Wales police, which, of course, involves some of the other national security agencies. It is not the Prime Minister who is out trying to politicise this; it is Mr Dutton and his team over here. It is outrageous. It is a new low in Australian politics—the desperation and recklessness and arrogance of the opposition!—that they would choose to take an issue like this and run and play politics with it. That's exactly what they are doing. All the lectures that we heard from those opposite around national security and supporting the security agencies and letting them do their jobs, which is exactly what we are doing, have been forgotten by those opposite—no, no, let's do a running commentary on it; let's try and make it the Prime Minister's fault. That's not leadership. We've got Mr Dutton, who stomps around the country creating division, who's never met a culture war that he doesn't want to jump on and who seizes an opportunity to play politics with an issue like this, the national security of Australia. You question— Senator Hughes: Did Chris Minns break national security obligations? The PRESIDENT: Senator Hughes, you are being completely disrespectful to my request for the opposition senators to listen in silence, the same respect that was afforded to Senator Cash when she spoke. I invited senators who couldn't show that respect to leave the chamber. I'm inviting you to either sit here in silence or leave the chamber. Senator GALLAGHER: The Leader of the Opposition hasn't even asked for a briefing on this matter. He probably doesn't want to be briefed, because that might stop him from being able to play these games. That is what is going on right now. There is an ongoing investigation. The focus needs to be on hunting down the criminals who are involved in this and allowing the security agencies to do their work. They are investigating this matter. There is no reason for this to be the subject of ongoing political debate, as chosen by those opposite. We won't be lectured by them around matters of national security—that's for sure—because of the approach that they have decided to take on this. The government will be opposing this motion, and I move: That the question be now put. The PRESIDENT: The question is that the closure motion as moved by Senator Gallagher be agreed to.