Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

You can laugh! The Greens, I suspect, almost believe their own conning of the Australian public, although they are clever enough to realise that it is a great con job on the Australian people. I will not sit by and let the Australian people be conned, particularly in relation to the Great Barrier Reef, by the sorts of drivel that comes out of the mouths of the Greens political party members.

I promised Senator Abetz that I would not take more than three minutes and I do understand the point that Senator Wong has made so I will cease there, but I could not, in all honesty, allow that sort of conning of the Australian public to go unchallenged.