Subjects: Senate Presidency, Australian Greens
FIONA NASH:
Day two in the Senate and we are already seeing Bob Brown getting too big for his green boots. Yesterday in the Senate we saw him put Scott Ludlam forward for president of the Senate. We then saw Bob Brown put Scott Ludlam forward for deputy president of the senate, remembering that the Greens have nine out of the seventy-six senators in the chamber. We have Bob Brown saying that the Greens are going to replace the Labor party and there will be a Green in the lodge and I think the Australian people need to be well aware that the Greens are getting far too big for their boots.
1.5 million people might have voted for the greens but 11million people didn’t and there are two numbers, 226 and 10. There are two hundred and twenty six members of parliament, only ten of those belong to the Greens and they are running the country in the Greens-Labor government. That is what the government thinks, that is not right – it is an aberration of numbers and the Australian people need to watch very very closely as Bob Brown goes forth and tries to be king of the world.
JOHN WILLIAMS:
Just to add to that they want to stop the coal mining – 200,000 jobs to be just done away with, with other countries filling those export positions, supplying the coal. Here we are, they want to stop the export of live animals, look what it’s doing now to the top end of Australia, the economic and financial mess that is being created by the suspension to the export of live animals to Indonesia. Indonesia is very angry and we can understand that. We need to get that industry up and running as soon as possible. There are seven A class abattoirs, there is no reason why Australia can’t supply those cattle.
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