Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks, Senator Cox, and, as you know, for years the Australian business community has been crying out for policy certainty around the environment and energy so they can plan their investments accordingly. Instead, we all remember that they got 22 different policies from the coalition's wasted decade in office, and apparently now, at the urging of Senator Cash in the coalition party room today, they are about to get another one. Now, call me old-fashioned, but I always thought that one of the KPIs of a Senate leader would be that they would back in their actual party leader! It's old-fashioned, I know. But instead of Senator Cash leading support for the opposition leader, we have Senator Cash leading a rabble within the coalition, leading the brains trust of Senator Canavan, Senator Antic, Tony Pasin, Terry Young—