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

This is exactly what the Australian Greens represent in this place: one standard for everybody else and a completely different standard—or is it rather absolutely no standards?—for the Australian Greens.

I say to Senator Bob Brown: withdraw your criticisms of the President of the Senate; apologise to him and apologise to Senator Ludwig; stop scapegoating the Prime Minister of Australia for your own predica­ment; and then remove your trumped up notices of motion against Senator Boswell, Senator Joyce and me from the Notice Paper. I do not expect an apology from Senator Brown, but I do think that Senator Bob Brown should think very carefully about apologising to both Senator Joyce and Senator Boswell.

I finish with a question to Senator Bob Brown. Last week it was revealed that Mr Wood's almost $1.7 million donation to the Australian Greens, which we know funded the Australian Greens' advertising campaign, was in kind; I ask Senator Brown whether or not Mr Wood received any benefit for that donation?