Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It is wonderful to hear about the new coalition that is emerging right now. We have a new coalition: it is the grand coalition of the Liberal Party, then National Party and One Nation. That is great news. I just want to put it on the record. I understand that there are a number of politicians who were in and out of Senator Hanson's door. I just want to put it on the record that the Greens were not one of them.

What we have here is a piece of legislation with an amendment that is absolutely meaningless. You might as well have an amendment that said, 'We want world peace.' Any government at any time could have said—at some point in the future, make no mistake, we will have either this government or a future government come in and put an amendment to the meaningless deal that was negotiated with the One Nation party to say we are going to increase the passenger movement charge. You have been dudded. You have been absolutely dudded You have been played, but it is good to see. You are now right out of the mould of the National Party. You are in this coalition and you have become another doormat.