Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Acting Deputy President. It is pretty typical of the Greens, isn't it? They can give it but they cannot take it. Senator Ludlam spent the whole of his speech attacking the government and yet, when one points out a few home truths about the Greens political party and the record donation they got from a private individual, he takes a point of order. Here is the party that is all in favour of free speech, except when it impacts upon the Greens political party. It shows that, for the Greens political party, there was not really free speech. You will remember it was the same Mr Graeme Wood, the big donor to the Greens political party, who wanted the Greens political party, after this donation, to actually get a tax-free break for him in his new online newspaper.