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

If the name does not suit, so be it. I think we need to modernise ourselves a little bit there, Madam Acting Deputy President. But I take your point; I will move on from references to 'Tony Abbott' and use 'Mr Abbott'. He is the same person, and it is not going to make it any easier for the National Party and the Liberal Party here to defend the indefensible. What a silly parliamentary manoeuvre this is. What a waste of this Senate's time, when we should be looking at the legislation on the agenda here, which affects families, which affects regional and rural Australia, which is aimed at dealing—