Lidia Thorpe (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

[by video link] My contribution will be short and sweet. Basically, you two—Labor and Libs—are the only ones on the committee you're talking about. If that's not a closed shop, if that's not failing the democracy that we're meant to have in this country, what is this about? How can we have a committee that's filled with Labor and the Liberals and shuts out the Greens, the only grassroots, democratic party that represents the people—no dirty donations, no favours for privileged mates, no mining jobs when we leave?

I thought what this was about—you're raising you're eyebrows; I can see you—was working together for the betterment of the people in this country. We're meant to be, aren't we? Madam Temporary Chair, are you okay?