Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Gellibrand should have spent more time at the SRC at Bond University really honing his craft on how to play silly games in an elected chamber. But what we do here actually matters. There is one point that I'll take from him, which is that this is about critical infrastructure. Those opposite have opposed a bill to secure Australia's critical infrastructure. Why have they done that? Because they have no idea how to govern Australia.

What they do know, however, is how to misinform the electorate, how to play silly games through their mates at the Open Foundation and how to accept votes from the crossbench. They know how to accept votes for the crossbench, bought and paid for by Climate 200. That hides their donations from directors of coal companies who bought their mines from Eddie Obeid. They don't like anyone talking about Eddie Obeid. But this director of a coal company also had an adverse finding at the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. I was listening to Simon Holmes a Court today—and, by the way, what Kendall Roy is to Succession Simon Holmes a Court is to Australian politics. I haven't seen a similarity that stark in a long time. What we got from Mr Holmes a Court today was one slogan, and behind that slogan was another slogan. If you dig far enough, you'll find the slogan-making sausage machine funded by the director of a coal company who bought his mine from Eddie Obeid. Simon Holmes a Court said he has three values, by which he means three slogans: climate change action, women and integrity.

Let's not judge them by their rhetoric. Let's judge them by what they do. On climate change, I can't think of a greater challenge requiring serious people to make serious points and come up with serious policies. Those on this side of the House came up with net zero by 2050, a fully documented 200-page plan, with billions of dollars in investment and funding for renewable energy.

Opposition members interjecting—

I can't believe those opposite want to be interrupting at the moment, given that they are taking votes from a person funded by a coal investor and a coal director whose money came from Eddie Obeid's coalmine.

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