Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It is interesting that Senator Hanson sat quietly by and listened to the rubbish we heard from Senator Macdonald around Adani and the Great Barrier Reef without taking a point of order. She is quite happy to take a point of order on the Australian Greens when we point out the facts backed by science—something that Senator Hanson and One Nation would know absolutely nothing about whatsoever, because they are conspiracy theorists, and rampant conspiracy theorists at that.

The Greens proudly have suggested this amendment to the Senate chamber, because truth is important. Truth in advertising is important and truth in politics is important. We've seen what happened in the Brexit vote in the UK and in the presidential vote in the US, where truth became a casualty of people's greed for power. That's what we've seen, and it's time that this place, the Australian parliament, stood up and took a stand against false political advertising, took a stand against those people who prioritise their desperate scramble for political power over truth and respect for the people that we are supposed to represent in this place.

The TEMPORARY CHAIR: The question is that the amendment moved by Senator Di Natale on sheet 8232 be agreed to.