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

Maybe if you control the interjections it would be less difficult for me to ignore it. But he is inviting a response and he will get it from me as long as he keeps going, Madam Acting Deputy President. Let me get back to the matter at hand. This legislation has, according to the minister, led to the identification from the corporate sector of 4.7 million tonnes of greenhouse gas savings. That is equivalent to 700,000 households or, on my back of the envelope calculation, four million plane trips to London. I am sure Senator Milne would be saying that you would have a huge increase in that if you included the coal corporations. But, no, they have been able to corrupt the process that we are dealing with in this place through their sure-fire lobbying of this government, which is spineless when it comes to dealing with climate change—