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

and nor does the member opposite, on behalf of the Liberals, interjecting in this debate 'fraud and hypocrite'.

What a level of debate we are seeing from this incompetent opposition, hurting from losing yesterday's vote in the House of Representatives! They know that a massive change in the politics of this country occurred yesterday and will be followed up in this Senate in a couple of weeks time. We have a Leader of the Opposition who has made a 'pledge in blood' which he cannot and will not keep. So you would expect when you have people who are losing an argument on a monumental issue like climate change that they will go for the person, not the issue. Well, bring it on, because we will give you the public rebuttal you deserve.

What is happening here is that the opposition are trying to prevent debate on important matters in private members' time, which is about to come up. They will not succeed.