Bridget McKenzie (Victoria, National Party, Minister for Agriculture) Share this | Hansard source

Sorry, Madam Deputy President. It's a bit of a joke, very rich—again, playing politics for Fitzroy, Brunswick and the like, thank you very much.

An opposition senator: Elwood?

It's 'leafy Elwood'! But for you to come in here and lecture us on how to deal with the drought—that if we switched off all coal-fired power stations in this country today, somehow, miraculously it would rain tomorrow—is just a joke. I believe the science, and I know what science will tell me: that won't happen.