Senate debates

Thursday, 5 December 2013

Bills

Poker Machine Harm Reduction ($1 Bets and Other Measures) Bill 2012 [2013]; Second Reading

9:48 am

Photo of John WilliamsJohn Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

So I will put that question to them, and I will know exactly how much.

Senator Di Natale interjecting—

Well, perhaps we should go to Mr Wotif. Let us talk about donations and go to Wotif and the $1.6 billion donation to the Greens. You are holier-than-thou, but the biggest donation to any political party in the history of Australia went to who? To the Greens. 'Thank you, Mr Graeme Wood; just give us the cheque for $1.6 billion.' And now we get an accusation that the Inverell RSM Club is donating to the Liberal Party. I find that very amazing. In Inverell they do not even have a Liberal Party branch. We did not have a Liberal Party candidate last election; we had a National Party candidate by the name of Mr Barnaby Joyce—you may have heard of him, Senator Di Natale. That is outrageous—we are trying to be serious here about a very serious issue, and you are making a fool of yourself.

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