Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Is the minister aware of reports that his deputy, Senator Conroy, recently acknowledged that the Greens inspired carbon tax was destroying the government and admitted to grave reports about climate change science? Is this the real reason your deputy, Senator Conroy, was absent for Tuesday's vote on the carbon tax?

Senator Conroy interjecting—