Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Immigration) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—In relation to the Greens motion, what we have before us is the Greens yet again pushing their publicity buttons and desperately angling for some media exposure by putting forward a motion asking the Senate to uphold democratic principles. Will wonders never cease! This is without a doubt one of the greatest examples of Greens hypocrisy that the Senate has ever seen. Why? The only party in this Senate which does not believe in consistently upholding the principles of democracy is the Greens.

It is interesting that the Greens had originally worded their motion in a vague and general manner, because we all know that when the Greens couch motions in such a way there is usually a dangerous sting in the tail of it—and do not let us forget Senator Bob Brown's ominous words about the Greens agenda. The Greens are recreating Australia for the new century street by street, community by community, city by city, and in relation to their failure—