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

It just again shows the Greens are a lackey of the Labor Party. They will preference them in Queensland and it will mean that the Traveston Crossing dam will be built thanks to the Greens political party. Time has escaped me and I can only again plead to those sitting opposite, the supposed saviours of the workers, to join Bill Ludwig—calling Garnaut a wacko, as he did—in calling upon the Rudd government to take a pause to get Senator Wong to have another look at this emissions trading scheme so Queensland jobs will not be put at risk.

Question agreed to.