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

We now have Senator Macdonald doing what I did not do to him, and that is interjecting.

Senator Abetz interjecting—

And now Senator Abetz is interjecting. They believe they have some God-given right to be able to run the country in a way that would prevent democracy, prevent peaceful protests, prevent different points of view to theirs. They come with that point of view to ride right over every other Australian's rights in this democratic and peaceful country, and of course we do not stand for that. Anybody who reads what Senator Macdonald, and indeed our good Senator Boswell from Queensland, had to say will see where the trajectory is. It is nasty, it is censorious, it is restrictive, it is inhibitory and it is unworthy of the political process in this country. The senators opposite should be ashamed of themselves.

Then, of course, Senator Macdonald—who is the biggest infractor of the Senate rules in this place and is compounding it with his interjections—cannot even get the name of the Australian Greens right. This representative of the so-called Liberal Party—

Opposition senators interjecting—

Listen to them bellowing from the other side. They do not like being taken on on this. They do not like the fact that they have no argument. They do not like the fact that the ACCC—