Max Chandler-Mather (Griffith, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed. Thanks, Deputy Speaker, and of course it's escalating. It's interesting to me that the members opposite—the government over there—care more about that sort of decorum than the death and destruction their policies are causing. The question is why the Labor government is acting in a way that financially benefits oil and gas corporations. We have the coalition over here saying I know where I live—let's sum this up. We've got both sides of parliament who act in the interests of fossil fuel corporations regardless of the consequences.

It's not a surprise that the coalition appointed Grant King, previous executive of Origin, a massive gas corporation, as the head of the Climate Change Authority and that the Labor Party government keeps him there. Woodside, of course, is one of the large gas corporations that are benefiting from government policy. We have a strong history of that, and we'll speak about the coalition for a second, lest we forget that it was the Howard government that used ASIS to spy on the Timor-Leste government when they were negotiating with the Labor government, ultimately to the benefit of Woodside. Alexander Downer, the then Minister for Foreign Affairs, went on to work for Woodside after using the Australian security apparatus to spy on behalf of Woodside, essentially, and to financially benefit them. Then Alexander Downer went to work for them.

We also have the Labor Party. I thought I would quote, by the way, to give you an idea of why your party is so deeply corrupted and broken and utterly incapable of tackling climate change. It's a quote from—

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