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

Senator Parry distracts me by saying LNPG. We will not go there. I do not want to make light of this, because this is a disgraceful statement by a minister who has absolutely no interest in the environment. I have to be careful, but I suggest that his passion for the environment had a little bit more to do with his former employment than it does with genuine belief in the environment and heritage. We see so many examples of what he sang about before being absolutely trashed in government by this minister, who is a disgrace to the name of minister for the environment and heritage.

I can only agree, but not quite as eloquently as Senator Siewert—