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

The Labor Party have to enter into this because they know it is true. In every state of the Commonwealth and federally, you guys would not be there without the preferences of the Greens. I agree with Senator Siewert that your record in the environment is just atrocious. While we are talking about Mr Garrett, it takes him a flick of an eye to use the EPBC Act to stop commercial developments in my state of Queensland, but when you have got the greatest environmental disaster on the way perpetrated by the Queensland Labor government and Mr Garrett has the ability to do something for the environment, he does absolutely nothing. I am talking, of course, about the Traveston Crossing dam, which is a travesty of environmental management.