David Leyonhjelm (NSW, Liberal Democratic Party) Share this | Hansard source

The Liberal Democratic Party has principles. I will spell it out for you one day.

What we will see instead is that, if a double dissolution occurs, it will be primarily about the ABCC and the Greens will have facilitated it. What will that mean? We have seen already that the Greens are a party of betrayal. Twice they have voted against the opportunity to bring forward a vote on their own bill—this week on same-sex marriage, so they have betrayed that community. They will betray their union supporters, the ones who give them money and the ones who think that they speak up for their values. They will betray them and they will betray their fellow senators who will lose their seats. For what? So that Senator Rhiannon can beat the Liberal Democrats in New South Wales. That is what it is all about. They are prepared to sacrifice money and fellow senators for Senator Rhiannon's seat in New South Wales. That is what it adds up to. The best thing that they could do is to support this amendment and rule out a double dissolution completely.