This legislation is nothing more or less than the dark fantasy of a particular public servant—a man who has been working his way to the top of Australian government for decades, a man of a dangerous right-wing disposition who has successfully created a department in his image and who now stands on the cusp of achieving a lifelong goal of empowering the Australian government with the ability to keep the general populace, who he regards as nothing more or less than helpless sheep, safe and sound. I am talking, of course, of Michael Pezzullo, the head of the Department of Home Affairs, who has, for almost 10 years now, waited for a government stupid enough to pass this legislation and an opposition weak enough to let them do it. Now, in 2018, he has found his men in Scott Morrison and Bill Shorten.

Mr Bill Shorten and Mr Scott Morrison are the fools willing to follow along in the wake of a man who has no place in the Australian Public Service. He's a man of such dangerous ideas, of such a radical disposition, of such an absolute, ironclad belief in his own rightness, that he would force through legislation that he knows is flawed, that he knows places at risk the privacy of every Australian, that he knows will drive business out of this country and that he knows places us at risk of criminal activity, because he wants the power. He believes that he alone is the man of the moment—the man willing, the man capable, of keeping us safe. He is nothing more or less than a snake that has waited in the grass for a helpless government.

This is the speech. You can be the judge.