Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I feel bad about saying this, but while you are in the chamber I just want to get the point across. I do not want to get too personal here, Mr Deputy President, but Senator Siewert is a genuine environmentalist. Some of the rest of her party are more socialist lefties of the old-style communist mode than they are environmentalists. I just wish Senator Siewert were leading the Greens political party, and a number of us on this side are running a campaign for a leadership spill in the Greens political party—