Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I think the Senate should take account of all those occasions in which the coalition has voted with the Greens party to defeat measures by this government. Based on that logic, you are associated with those theories. That would be as logical as saying that this government, because it has had the support on some measures of the Greens party, is somehow implicated in misthought, in these absurdities, in these conspiracies. I would not even dignify such a view by branding it McCarthyism because old Joe McCarthy at least had a little logic—