Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

But, secondly and probably more importantly, it is because the real threatened species is not the weedy sea dragon—which I think was one of the species referred to by the member for Cook—nor the grey-headed flying fox, but anyone in the New South Wales Liberal Party who is more progressive than Genghis Khan. Notably, one of the threatened species in the New South Wales Liberal Party is the present member for Cook, who earlier this year—extraordinarily—was not allowed to join a branch of his own party in his own electorate. I do not have to search for my own description of the significance of this, because some prominent Liberals have done it for me. The New South Wales state President of the Liberal Party, Geoff Selig, said, ‘It is ridiculous and makes us a laughing stock.’

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