Katy Gallagher (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) | Hansard source

Labor will also be opposing this motion, not because we don't support the great work undertaken by Bowel Cancer Australia, but because, as we've seen within a lot of motions this week, the Greens are writing their motions with a deliberate view to dividing the Senate. Subclause (ii) of this motion goes directly to that point. I think the other elements of the motion are fine. Meat Free Week is a great campaign. It is an important message that people can make little changes to their diet, but the Greens have inserted a paragraph that puts us all in a difficult position, because people across the Senate will have different views about this. Every motion they are moving at the moment has a clause like this. This section of the program, as I have said a number of times, is about things where there is generally consensus. This is just getting to be a bit more than a joke, to be honest.