Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

(—) (): As I said, the House of Representatives is conducting an inquiry into these matters at the moment, and I look forward to its recommendations on what we can do about what is a very serious issue. But I'm interested to note that Senator Rice seems to be enunciating that the Greens' position is that they don't support gambling donations from companies, but donations from individual highroller gamblers are fine. Does that mean that every time we hear the Greens say that we should ban donations from coal and gas companies it would be okay for the Greens to take donations from Clive Palmer, who owns coal companies, or Gina Rinehart? So it's a no to their companies, but it's fine for them. Mr Turpie is a highroller gambler. The Greens don't like it when they're held to account, and Senator McKim is chief among them. You come in here and mouth off constantly about what other parties should do, but the very minute your own hypocrisy is exposed, all you want to do is shout people down. You are a joke, you are hypocrites and you're finally being exposed. (Time expired)