Senate debates
Thursday, 26 November 2009
Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Australian Climate Change Regulatory Authority Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Customs) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — Excise) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (Charges — General) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme (CPRS Fuel Credits) (Consequential Amendments) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Excise Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Customs Tariff Amendment (Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme) Bill 2009 [No. 2]; Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme Amendment (Household Assistance) Bill 2009 [No. 2]
In Committee
10:32 pm
Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source
The National Party is the ‘coal’ in the word ‘coalition’. Ask the people of Gunnedah, the people of the Darling Downs, or the people in coastal Queensland who are confronted with this coal based party. It has lost direction. It does not know where it is going. Senator Joyce and his colleagues have been talking about the Greens on 10 per cent. We have overtaken the National Party in terms of voting base and there is one party in this chamber at the moment that knows where it is going on this issue. We have made that very clear. The Greens are steering straight through this because we are based in global scientific nous and knowledge and responsibility. We are absolutely sure of where we are going on this. When Senator Xenophon brings forward a noble amendment like this—
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