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

If the President wishes to remove me because I am speaking about his absence tomorrow, in an unfair circumstance, which he should have thought through and which is inappropriate, then he may do so. Let him do it if he wishes to. That would be a political use of the chair by a member of the government. If he wants to do that, let him do it. I am not going to be intimidated by the President or anybody else in this place, let me tell you. The fact is that the President is going to swan off to this meeting—