Helen Kroger (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. I will refrain from speaking in the same manner and being abusive like those on the crossbenches over there. This is difficult to believe, given Senator Brown's intimate involvement in the Tasmanian environment movement and his bevy of staff, who should have drawn the media speculation to his attention. Interestingly, Senator Brown said he learned of Mr Wood's Global Mail venture when he read of it in the paper. May I say that is another coincidence.

So we have Mr Graeme Wood bankrolling the Global Mail. Senator Brown makes a submission to the media inquiry advocating tax deductibility for not-for-profit ventures. Monica Attard makes a submission advoca­ting the same measure and the media inquiry makes a sympathetic recommend­ation mentioning the Global Maila great coincidence, I am sure. Given that Senator Brown—