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

We have a proposal about a government plan which does not exist and has not been produced into the public arena. It quite properly will be introduced in the coming weeks for public discussion in the lead-up to a parliamentary discussion after the Australian people have had a good look at it over the coming months. We have a proposal here before the parliament on a question for a plan that does not exist. It is a nonsense, of course.

One of the problems for the government is a survey of Australian opinion on the alternatives. When you get to ask the astute Australian electorate, which is effectively being proclaimed by Mr Abbott and Senator Abetz as being unable to get its mind around this issue, you find—