Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

The simple solution is to ensure the re-election of a Labor government, rather than those environmental vandals on that side, if you want to give genuine protection to this area. Those opposite have again started off by saying no; they have started off by opposing this. As you can see from the interjections of those opposite, they have no commitment whatsoever to this decision or to the maintenance and support of this decision. The Australian public should be under no illusion that the environmental and economic vandals on that side of the chamber have changed. They will continue to put the environment in Tasmania at risk, and every Australian should bear that in mind in the election in September.