George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Minister for the Arts and Sport) Share this | Hansard source

I am addressing the nuclear fuel cycle, Mr President. We have had the humiliating spectacle of the shadow minister for the environment turning his back on a lifetime of commitment—to a point of view which I do not share—on this issue, in a pusillanimous attempt to try and score some electoral advantage for the Labor Party, to take them away from the irrationality and the quasi-religious zealotry of their attitude to nuclear fuel. The one thing I can assure Senator Marshall is that when the Howard government addresses the question of— (Time expired)