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

I expect respect in return, Senator, and your interjections are disorderly. The President is going to be absent from the Senate for this sitting of parliament. There are two former members of the Tasmanian parliament in the Greens who also want to be at that sitting. But we are effectively prevented because we are taking our duty to this nation and our duty to defend the interests of this nation seriously. The choice has been removed by this government using its numbers. Central to those numbers is the vote of the President—