Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I might start my contribution on the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Amendment (Authority Governance and Other Matters) Bill 2017 with a question to the Australian people: who would you rather believe? Would you rather believe a Liberal senator whom I think Senator Brandis labelled—correct me if I'm wrong—as the grandfather of the Senate, a Liberal senator who is a self-confessed climate change denier, who doesn't believe in man-made climate change? He is the best the Liberal Party could put in here today. The best they could do was put up Senator Macdonald to speak on behalf of the Great Barrier Reef. He is a self-confessed climate change denier.

Senator Ian Macdonald interjecting—