Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

It is a pleasure for me to enter into this debate on the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Bilateral Agreement Implementation) Bill 2014 following a speaker from the Greens political party and from Tasmania, no less. You only have to think of what the Greens political party, with their Labor allies, did to the economy of Tasmania over the last 10 or more years to realise that the ideas and visions of the Greens political party in the things that they convinced the Labor Party in Tasmania to be part of have just decimated the economy of that state and made it a completely mendicant economy, relying on—