Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to comment on the report of the Standing Committee of Senators’ Interests. I preface my remarks by saying that cowardice is not something I admire. I find it cowardly in the extreme that Senator Abetz should use the parliament as cowards’ castle and make all kinds of innuendo and reflections when he knows full well that what he was tabling on behalf of the chair, the declaration of interests, was the information that is being made public for people to consider. I have to reflect that the only paper bag that I know of in Australian politics in recent times was the one that was received by the former Premier of Tasmania—the Liberal Premier of Tasmania—Robin Gray, who accepted—