Andrew Bartlett (Queensland, Australian Democrats) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator Kemp. I happen to recall as well. You try to say something positive about this government and they still have to come across and slag you off in a typical pig ignorant way. It is extraordinary; their arrogance is unbelievable. They cannot let you get to the end of a sentence without misinterpreting what you are saying, when you are about to give them a compliment, and they try to say that you do not know what you are talking about. You are right: sorry, I do not know what I am talking about and I do not know why I was trying to give you a compliment. Clearly, that was stupid of me! The treaties committee, when it was established, did go some way to enabling the scrutiny of treaties.