Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I seek leave to make a short statement.

Leave granted.

I thank the Senate. I should explain that the Greens are not supporting this suite of motions from Senator Cormann, although we support the active component of it. I have spoken with the good senator about this. We do not agree with the preamble. Without going into detail, it is a politically loaded preamble. There are assertions amongst motions 4, 5 and 6 that we cannot back without going into a long debate in this place. While we are in support of the active component, to support these motions would be to support the information asserted by Senator Cormann in the lead-up to that active component. We cannot in this situation do that. That is why we are opposing the motions.