Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I am pleased that you will review it. As you will see when you read what I have said, I have said no more than Senator Brown himself has said tonight and there is nothing in there that in any way states anything other than the facts of the matter. But Senator Brown continues to try to interrupt my speech, and one can only wonder why that is.

In conclusion I was saying that, before I leave this topic, I should note again the hypocrisy of the Greens political party, who have been decrying Gina Rinehart's taking of a stake in Fairfax with her own money—on which she has paid tax—while wanting taxpayers to underwrite The Global Mail, the pet media project of the Greens political party's biggest donor. When will those people who genuinely support the Greens political party as a keeping-the-bastards-honest type of party realise that the Greens are—