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

Because there's been, I believe deliberately, a significant misinformation placed on the record about what's happened this afternoon, I just want to be clear about what has actually happened in the last half an hour in this Senate. It was the Australian Labor Party that denied formality to Senator O'Sullivan and Senator Bernardi. It was not the Australian Greens. It was the Australian Labor Party. Despite the sordid little fantasies of Senator Bernardi, suggesting that the Greens had asked or set up Labor to do that, I can categorically assure him and the Senate that that was not true in the slightest. Then we had a situation where Senator O'Sullivan denied Senator Di Natale—