Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I think that needs to go on the record. Senator Scott Ludlam for the Greens just called the Liberal Nationals 'communists'. That has to go on the record. With that thought in mind—

Senator Mason interjecting—

You will be voting for this, apparently, Senator. You spent your entire political life, to your credit, fighting communism. You thought you had led the destruction of communism only to discover that once you got back into bed with those rural socialists they'd get ya! And now we have a policy to renationalise copper. So I will leave it at that, Senator Ludlam, and look forward to the chamber's support for these bills.