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

I very much support this motion. I was invited by a number of news organisations to respond to the president's death and did so nationally. I agree with the senator moving this motion that Havel is another example of a great soul who can inspire all of us. But he would not have wanted his death used for political or petty pointscoring in the Australian Senate. I thought the mover of this motion, a good motion and a good point of view to be put, demeaned this occasion by his comment on the Greens. It was very unworthy of him and he should have done better than that. Havel would have blown the whistle on that.

Question agreed to.