Jonathon Duniam (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Forestry and Fisheries) Share this | Hansard source

The government thanks Senator Di Natale for what may be his final formal business motion in the Senate and for his long contribution to this place, but notes the chaos and run-amok spending that were the hallmarks of the Gillard government and the 43rd Parliament. In concert with the Australian Greens, Labor in the 43rd Parliament introduced a job-destroying carbon tax and presided over a remarkably ineffective mining tax and a litany of other failures. The Gillard government saw broken promises, the only constant feature being that, while Labor were able to cling on to government, the Greens were the ones in power the whole time, and that, indeed, is a remarkable achievement.