Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party) | Hansard source

If the Greens political party is going to treat this chamber like a sort of youth model United Nations, I'd prefer it if the motions were a little bit more interesting and original. It is nothing if not predictable. We got the usual thundering speech at the beginning from the barefoot investor. It is good for the social media posts—I get it—but it is a tired contribution from a party that looks and sounds exhausted. They have been in this Senate for 34 long years, and this is all that they have, and a record of zero achievement. A few decades ago, there was at least some energy to them. Perhaps they had enough of the old activists still around to put some fuel in their ideological tank. Instead, the party of protest has become the party of performance art and street theatre. They've lost their ambition. They've lost their drive. Now this is all just about securing the little 10 per cent that each of them need to come back here. It keeps them occupied, I suppose—