Sarah Henderson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you very much, Acting Deputy President. So, as I say, Australians are onto the Greens as well as onto Labor. And just imagine if we had a minority Labor-Greens-Teals government after the next federal election. What a mess this country would be in. What chaos this country would be in—the deals, the underhand conduct. The risk to this country would absolutely accelerate rate if the Greens got their hands on any sort of power arrangement with the Labor government, because we have seen how bad the Albanese Labor government is. Imagine how bad it would be if the Greens had their hands on the tills of government. We cannot allow that risk to happen.

This is nothing more than a stunt from the Greens. The Greens have tried to cut a deal with the government in relation to gambling advertising. It hasn't worked, so, as we heard, Senator Hanson-Young wrote to the Minister for Communications then dropped that letter to the papers in a desperate effort for publicity, knowing full well that the Albanese Labor government wouldn't support the bill. So, as I say, this is more posturing, this is more rubbish from the Greens, and it is a last-minute desperate attempt to cover up the fact that the Greens are so wrong.

Honourable senators interjecting—