Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) | Hansard source

I will withdraw, and I will say—through you, Chair—that the sociopaths who run fossil fuel corporations on this planet who are literally destroying the lives and the futures of billions of people and their sociopathic agents in this chamber and in the other place in this parliament have got a lot to answer for. And what they've got to answer for is death, disease, displacement, starvation, people dying of thirst, arable farming lands turning into desert and, most likely, billions of people dead by the end of this century and the collapse of the ecosystems that actually support all human life on this planet. That's what people like Senator Canavan have got to answer for. He can sit there and smirk and laugh about it as much as he likes, but history will regard what he has said and done in this place as an utter disgrace.

This paradisical planet! This beautiful, beautiful planet! This complex, awesome web of life is dying. It's dying. What is it going to take for people like him, for people like the Labor Party, for people like the opposition in this place to act? How many people are going to have to die before you will divorce yourselves from the sociopaths running fossil fuel and forestry corporations?