Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

and you want to come in here and continue to throw smears at hardworking members of the government. I have no doubt that the member for Leichhardt as well as Senator McLucas will be putting the case for that community as strongly as they put other cases for the communities they represent. They are outstanding representatives of Far North Queensland in this parliament, and I am sure they will be putting their views very clearly to Minister Garrett and the government on this issue. But for you to come in here and yet again suggest that somebody is not telling the truth really demonstrates that those on the other side have no strategy other than a low-rent strategy.