Greg Hunt (Flinders, Liberal Party, Minister for Health) Share this | Hansard source

I am delighted to take this question from the Greens today, because they sat there when they were in a partnership with a Labor government which saw the reef placed on the World Heritage in-danger watchlist. They sat there and did nothing!

So when we came to government, the reef was on the watchlist. And they were silent. They were complicit. They were inactive. They were passive. And they were part of a monumental failure of environmental policy on that side of the House.

Mr Bandt interjecting—

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