Paul Scarr (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Multicultural Engagement) Share this | Hansard source

steal it, as Senator Roberts says. This is quite extraordinary! Have you actually consulted the members of the golf club on this crazy Greens extreme proposal to nationalise, appropriate and confiscate their golf club? Did you actually consult them? Have you raised this crazy idea to confiscate this golf club? Did you actually talk to the members of the golf club before you put out this manifesto, this Greens radical extreme manifesto, to nationalise, appropriate and confiscate their golf club? Golfers of Australia beware: the Greens are coming after you. The Greens are coming after your golf clubs. They're coming after your golf club itself!

This is 128 years of history in my region of Queensland, and the Greens have the gall to introduce this policy to seek election in my own district on a platform that involves the confiscation of the golf club with 1,600 members. It's been going for 128 years, and the Greens want to nationalise it—absolutely extraordinary stuff. I say to the Greens' candidate: have you consulted the members of the Brisbane Golf Club about this proposal? Did you at least have the courtesy to tell them you want to steal their golf club? Did you actually have any consultation with them? 128 years of history—it's actually a heritage listed golf club. This is a world-leading golf club in terms of promoting women's participation in golf, and the Greens want to come and convert it to a riverside public park. It's the—