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

If the honourable senator wants a direct answer to that question, she should be directing it to my good friend Senator Williams, rather than to me. As I had the great pleasure of saying in question time yesterday, we in the coalition have a broad church. We actually represent differing views within the community and we bring them all together in our party room. That is unlike those opposite, who only allow one type of person into their party room and that person has to have the qualification of having been a trade union official. Without that, you are not allowed into the Labor Party in this joint. What else I might add is this: we actually believe in freedom of expression.

Senator Conroy interjecting—

Senator Conroy comes in on cue, because we know what his views are on climate change but he cannot bring himself to express them. (Time expired)