Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party will also not be supporting these amendments. There's nothing quite like a Greens political party dripping in hypocrisy. How do I know that? I know that because my very good friend Lee Rhiannon, who is no longer in this House, was so outraged by the hypocrisy of the Greens on these matters that she ghost-wrote a poisoned letter attacking the Greens leadership at the time, so we know that the Greens are hypocritical on this. They tell us today that they want to remove big money from political donations. Well, lovely objective, but let let's talk about Duncan Turpie, a reclusive Queensland mathematician, investor and high-end gambler—high-end gambler! I can't quite remember all of the categories that the Greens want to ban but I do think gambling was one of them. How much big money—

Senator McKim interjecting—