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

The coalition senator interjects, as I heard it, to say that this is more negligent than the Howard government. It is only by 33⅓ per cent because Labor is offering a four-year exemption after the Howard government offered a three-year exemption. I can tell you that the interjecting senator will not get to his feet because he does not understand this legislation. That is part of the problem we are dealing with here. We have numbskulls that are prepared to interject and to create a cacophony from the benches who do not understand important legislation like this which has a massive impact on the future of this country and everybody who lives here. He is not prepared, and will not be prepared, to exhibit his ignorance by getting to his feet.