Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I did note that the member who has just spoken, Senator O’Brien, did make that curious assertion that it had been the government and the Greens who were voting together. I think it is good that it has been corrected. The motion that he referred to, where the opposition voted with the Greens, was one seeking information. I would have thought the government would have been forthcoming with that information and obviated the motion. Whatever the topic here is, one of the things the Senate has a very strong record on is seeking information out of government when the government moves to block that information being made available. It is very curious that Senator O’Brien wants to point to the opposition for seeking that information and doing its proper job. The opposition is acting entirely properly there, and it is the government who is found wanting.