Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I really have seen it all—a Greens party senator asking questions about political games. Really? The party who thrives on grandstanding and the party who will take any stage to grandstand, even if that's to line up with disgraced leaders of the CFMEU—that's how much you will grandstand—now wants to come in here and lecture other people about political games and using people as pawns.

For many months now, the Labor Party has had legislation, Help to Buy, in this chamber to literally help Australians to buy their own homes, and what has the Greens party done? They've stood in the way and joined up with Peter Dutton and the coalition to block that going ahead. Please don't give us a lecture about political games. We know that not all of the Greens party think that way. Senator Faruqi was giving voice to the extreme faction of the Greens party, which wants to block everything that Labor tries to do. We know there are other Greens who don't support that kind of approach and actually want to get things done. Maybe they'll eventually get something done and back in Labor when we're doing something. (Time expired)