Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President. Senator Milne has just now confirmed everything that I ever thought about the Greens: ignorance is bliss. That is why they are so happy in that corner. They do not bother reading the Hansards; they do not bother reading the newspapers; they do not bother informing themselves with that which is general knowledge. That way they do not have to make a moral judgement on their alliance partners in the Australian Labor Party. That is why the Australian Greens, of course, voted with Labor to suppress the documents that Senator Fierravanti-Wells wanted to expose in relation to the Craig Thomson matter. I daresay Senator Milne has not heard of Craig Thomson either. You have not heard of Michael Williamson—

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