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

I think, even for Senator Shoebridge, it is a stretch to be implying that the government of Australia, the Albanese Labor government, is responsible for the rallies we saw over the weekend. This government could not have been clearer in our condemnation of those rallies before, during and after the events. Unlike certain others in this chamber, who wanted to be against the rallies until they were held, and then started retreating at a rate of knots to say, 'Maybe it was okay after all,' we have been absolutely unequivocal in our condemnation and opposition to those rallies. While it might suit the Greens party's political interest to try to accuse the Labor government of being responsible for those rallies, I think people will see through that for what it is: just another political cheap shot from a party consigned to irrelevance in this parliament.