George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Di Natale, you have represented yourself as a person with a deep interest in this area of policy for as long as you have been in this place, and I think it is very instructive that not one of the three questions you have asked me has offered a single word of criticism of the policy—not a word. Every one of the three questions you've asked me has not been about the policy; it's been about cheap stunts from the team of undergraduates behind you or it's been about personal attacks on the character and motives of the Prime Minister. If you want to have an argument about policy, we're up for it, because we have adopted a sensible policy on the recommendation of the specialists who operate the Australian energy market. But you, Senator Di Natale, who pretend to be interested, can't rise above stunts.