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

Thank you, Mr Deputy President. Yes, the rabble on your left do not know how to behave in this parliament and, as we have just seen from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Abetz, they can never get to a policy issue in the interests of the Australian people. It is always: aim at the person, throw the nasty epithets, put out the hate message which the hate media might take up, but do not get down to discussing the issues of the day for the Australian people.

On that issue, it was just yesterday that I had to go across and ask Senator Abetz to have removed from the Liberal Party website an epithet from the public regarding the Prime Minister which said, 'Shoot the f'ing b…'. That is the standard of the stuff we see on Liberal Party websites.