A tiny bit of silver lining is that both sides of politics have found something to agree on

Both sides. Finance Minister Mathias Cormann on Twitter, yesterday:

When the Senate returns in April, senator (Penny) Wong and I will be moving the following bipartisan censure motion together …

A small selection from that censure motion:

That the Senate … calls on all Australians to stand against hate and to publicly, and always, condemn actions and comments designed to incite fear and distrust; … censures Senator (Fraser) ­Anning for his inflammatory and divisive comments seeking to attribute blame to victims of a horrific crime and to vilify people on the basis of ­religion, which do not reflect the opinions of the Australian Senate or the Australian people.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison during his press conference, yesterday:

Journalist: Just on Fraser Anning’s ­remarks, do you think the bipartisan censure motion goes far enough? Or do you think there is a case to remove him from the Senate?

Morrison: I think the full force of the law should be applied to Senator ­Anning.

Last time around. Fraser Anning responding on August 15, 2018, to the furore over his use of the phrase “final solution”:

For everyone to take it out of context is a joke and an attempt to try to shut down debate.

Tony Burke on Anning and his ilk in the House of Representatives, the night before:

“Do I give them what they want?” That’s the question you always ask yourself when you hear an appalling speech. They want to incite a debate, and when you hit back, the debate is exactly what they hoped for. But there has to be a point when this parliament says: enough. If we haven’t reached that point tonight then for some of us there is apparently no limit at all … To those who thought that the best thing may not be to give them what they want, I say, “If we continue to hold back, they have exactly what they wanted.”

On the one hand. Bill Shorten’s press conference, yesterday:

Journalist: What do you think of Fraser Anning’s egging yesterday?

Shorten: Listen, the young man who egged him, that was a mug thing to do. You don’t get your message out by coming up and crunching an egg on someone. That’s just stupid. But when I also saw … so I’ve got no time for that, doesn’t matter what rubbish that the politician was spouting, you don’t want to give this foolish politician, this hurtful politician, any sense of the moral high ground, because he has none.

But on the other … Shorten goes on:

How many tough extreme right-wingers does it take to wrestle with a 17-year-old boy? Clearly too many — it’s just wrong. So the police will have to do what they’ve got to do …

Warringah candidate Zali Steggall striking the right note as she tweeted about Christchurch, Friday:

Such a stark and horrific reminder of where extreme ideology, hate and divisive speech leads. We have to do better. My deepest condolences to the families.

More mileage. Steggall remembering just before reaching the end of the tweet that an election is coming:

#warringahvotes #auspol

Steggall tweeting in response to a story praising New Zealand PM ­Jacinda Ardern, yesterday:

From one PM raising the bar to an ex PM and his far right cohort preferring the gutter with backflips, lies and fake trucks! #auspol #WarringahVotes