Simon Crean (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

If the circumstances are that the Greens want to oppose this, there is the opportunity for the Liberal Party to get behind this forward-looking agenda, not stick their head in the sand, as Tony Abbott does, and say, 'In the opposition we can't fix things, so don't even get bogged down with them.' That is the opposition approach here. It should not be the opposition's approach in Tasmania. (Time expired)

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