Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Patterson does not want to be seen as being identified so closely with or like the Prime Minister. That is okay; I can understand that. I can see why that would be offensive. The fact is that the Great Hall of this parliament is the proper place for great speeches and great presentations. We should not have either house of this parliament used as a stamping ground for the aggrandisement of the Prime Minister.