It was a conference about the future, with guest speakers such as John Howard, who went along to say, 'Multiculturalism is a concept that I've always had trouble with,' and Tony Abbott, saying that climate change was both 'ahistorical and utterly implausible', peddled by a 'climate cult'. That's what they see as the future. They went all that way to bag multiculturalism and to bag climate change.

Honourable members interjecting—