He has previously indicated he will make life tough for Labor because he believes the election showed the Australian people did not want them to govern.

Re: Family First Senator Steve Fielding

Freedom of speech can be a very good thing and I will be one of the first to defend it to the death, or at least send it a card when it is diagnosed with lupus.

Senator Steve Fielding jumped on board the free speech train when he gamely suggested that women of a certain value system (he used the terms 'drug addicts and welfare cheats', though I think we all know he meant 'scum of the earth low-income types who like pushing prams around shopping malls and making nice middle-class men like me feel uncomfortable') would very likely make it their life's work to mock the paid parental leave scheme through wilfully getting pregnant and enjoying a cheeky abortion or 12, the scamps. To be honest, I find pretty much every idiotic bon mot that ejaculates from Steve Fielding's mouth more deeply offensive than anything Catherine Deveny has said ever, though last I checked he hadn't been fired or hounded by Today Tonight reporters or sworn at by Shane Warne. He has been reprimanded by Barnaby Joyce for 'going too far', which is essentially the moral equivalent of being kicked out of an orgy by the Marquis de Sade for spunking on the cat.

Fielding of course has defended his inane, small-minded rantings - 'All I was trying to do was to close that loophole and I think that's more than fair and reasonable' - and outside of a few annoyed columnists politely suggesting that he probably should have kept his thoughts to himself, he's free to go about his business of saving souls and making Tony Abbott look comparatively sane. If I wasn't such a kindly and beatific type I'd suggest Fielding ram a rusty nail up his sanctimonious butthole and rotate, though obviously that sort of crass talk isn't going to help anyone. Fielding has control of the talking stick and is allowed to speak his mind without fear of reprisal, apparently. Remind me again when we're supposed to light our torches?