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

They do not like it. As I said, the Australian headline was completely wrong. It is repeated in a column by former Labor representative Gary Johns today and it has been repeated elsewhere. It is one of those things you have to up with put. I have broad shoulders, but being verballed by the Australian does not make it right. As I said to the New York Times in the last 24 hours, if we are going to be seen to be replacing somebody, we already have replaced the Liberal Party, at least in terms of the notion that, if a true liberal party exists in this parliament, it is the Greens. We are a liberal minded party which stands for the people and for action on climate change in the public interest, because that is what we went to the election on, that is what we have worked in this parliament to achieve and that is what we are looking forward to being finally and fully announced on Sunday to go into the public arena for debate and then back into this parliament for action, while the opposition simply wants to feather-bed the polluters.