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

Mr Deputy President, thank you for sitting down another one of them. But they are in defence mode here this morning, and so they should be. They are on the back foot, because Clive Palmer, who I am told is just starting to withdraw parts of his statement—no doubt under pressure from them—yesterday went out and said:

We’ve just distributed, I’m sure you’ve seen it, ‘How to stop Queensland coal’ report—

That is a Greenpeace document—

which probably came out of Langley in the United States with the CIA.

He went on to say:

I think this is wrong. I think Drew Hutton should be ashamed that his document’s in there.

And so on. Let me tell you this, Mr Deputy President: here is the power behind the Campbell Newman Liberal National Party in Queensland—

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