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Yes, and that’s exactly what should happen.

And, you know, there have been problems here for a very long time.

And it’s not as you know, as people know, it’s not confined to one side of politics. And I don’t see how this thing should be sort of put in a partisan context. It shouldn’t be.

Because, I mean, there’s things for the Liberal party to deal with, these things in the National party to deal with, things for the Labor party. And the Greens as well. I mean, I’m aware of the things in the Greens in the New South Wales parliament

So I’m not pointing fingers here, I’m just saying, we just got to get on and fix it.

There was an act of great disrespect or was a woman in the thing that was released the other night. And that was what happened in the chief whip’s office, who is a female and a good friend of mine, and that was a great act of disgusting disrespect.

But this is one of, you know, many things – and these things happened quite a few years ago, to the first of my knowledge, it didn’t happen even when I was prime minister but well before.

So these are, these are terrible things. And they have been called out.

As for the other things we’ve talked about. I don’t know if that’s true or not, I’ve got no basis to know, one way or the other.

Regardless, I mean, it’s over got to start, though, I think, right, Ray, we’ve all got to respect each other a lot more. And then we talk about the culture of respect.

Well, and I don’t want to make this a men versus women, women versus men thing.

I don’t think Australians want that either. We’re all Australians. And, you know, there are great women, and there are great men, and they want to do the right thing.

And they don’t want to make this a whole identity issue.

They just want to live in a respectful community where people can live safely and well together.

That’s what I want. That’s all I want.

It’s a humble objective. I hope it is one that surely we can all share.