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

by leave—Well, the clock does tick over. Of course, as mover of the motion, I want to see a vote which reflects the will of the Senate and I will allow a recommittal. But what a failure this is by the coalition, which has the majority in the Senate! What a particular snub it is to Aboriginal Australia that the government should take its eye off the ball, forget about the clock ticking over and fail to have the numbers in here so that accidentally a motion gets through requiring this government to take responsibility for Indigenous cultural icons in this country! We are talking here about ancient stone carvings on the Tarkine coastline of Tasmania which were vandalised by rednecks. They took drills into the area around Christmas and crossed out these ancient circles which some say are as old as Stonehenge or the pyramids.