"Maiden speech, South Australian Legislative Council,"

“In Australia there are not limits on what you can believe but there are limits on how you can behave. It's called the law, and no one is above it.”

“Do you want Australian tax exemptions to be supporting an organisation that coerces its followers into having abortions? Do you want to be supporting an organisation that defrauds, that blackmails, that falsely imprisons? Because on the balance of evidence provided by victims of Scientology you probably are.”

“I don't know if I am a very good politician … I'm not a good hater.”

“I regularly see constituents, speak to people who feel let down by the justice system quite fundamentally, and these are people who don't make the headlines. These are people who have felt that their sense their grief, their sense of injustice has been compounded by a system that just doesn't work, that just doesn't listen to victims, that effectively disempowers them all too often.”