Zed Seselja (ACT, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We hear heckling from the Greens. They have made all sorts of wild claims. They are claiming a broken system when the system is not broken. I think that this extreme view of the world, as espoused by the Greens and as we are hearing here across the chamber, is something that the vast bulk of Australians reject. They do not accept the conspiracy theories. They do not believe you on the conspiracy theories. This claimed conspiracy of silence that we heard from Senator Di Natale just does not exist. What exists is a robust mechanism and a robust regime for ensuring that we do get that balance. The Greens seem intent on disrupting that. They seem intent on calling that into question. They seem intent on doing so without the evidence and with all sorts of half-truths and spurious claims. It is the Greens' view of the world that the Edward Snowdens of the world are in fact heroes; they are not and they should not be upheld as heroes in this place.

The coalition believes fundamentally in this robust scheme. It needs to be continually improved, but it is not improved by the hysterical claims that we hear from the Greens consistently in the media or by some of the hysterical claims we have heard from the Greens in this place today.