Senator BOB BROWN (Tasmania—Leader of the Australian Greens) (09:37): Thank you, Mr Deputy President. Yes, the rabble on your left do not know how to behave in this parliament and, as we have just seen from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, Senator Abetz, they can never get to a policy issue in the interests of the Australian people. It is always: aim at the person, throw the nasty epithets, put out the hate message which the hate media might take up, but do not get down to discussing the issues of the day for the Australian people. On that issue, it was just yesterday that I had to go across and ask Senator Abetz to have removed from the Liberal Party website an epithet from the public regarding the Prime Minister which said, 'Shoot the f'ing b…' That is the standard of the stuff we see on Liberal Party websites. Opposition senators interjecting— Senator BOB BROWN: Well, you might think that is funny. Liberal senators might think that is funny; I think it is absolutely disgusting. I think you should be ashamed of yourselves. I think you should have a bit more control of the way some of the people who think your way act and behave. The fact that outside this parliament just yesterday we saw security guards removing supporters of this coalition after they had disrupted question time in the other place while down on the lawns in front orderly Australian citizens were putting forward a point in favour of action on climate change shows the difference between the extremists who back the Liberal Party and Senator Abetz and the decency of people who are concerned about issues and want them properly debated in this place. The Australian's front-page story today has come out of a committee release which was a result of questions put by Senator Crossin, and I have this question to ask of those opposite: don't they want information coming out? Is it the case that the Ombudsman and the information coming from the Ombudsman should not be on the public record? Is it the quest of the opposition to suppress such information? I find it more than passing strange that the Australian today did not run the fact, from our press release yesterday, that I asked questions of the Ombudsman which were instigated by the Ombudsman's office because the answers to those questions should be on the public record. Of course, we have the ABC coat-tailing on the Australian today on a press release yesterday that they missed. I and Sarah Hanson-Young and my Greens team are very happy to be on the side of getting information out into the public and defending the Ombudsman's office. It is, after all, not something that ministers on either side happen to like. The Ombudsman is there as the watchdog of the public interest, and ministers do not like that— Senator Ronaldson: Oh, you're a hypocrite. You're a fraud and a hypocrite. Senator BOB BROWN: and nor does the member opposite, on behalf of the Liberals, interjecting in this debate 'fraud and hypocrite'. What a level of debate we are seeing from this incompetent opposition, hurting from losing yesterday's vote in the House of Representatives! They know that a massive change in the politics of this country occurred yesterday and will be followed up in this Senate in a couple of weeks time. We have a Leader of the Opposition who has made a 'pledge in blood' which he cannot and will not keep. So you would expect when you have people who are losing an argument on a monumental issue like climate change that they will go for the person, not the issue. Well, bring it on, because we will give you the public rebuttal you deserve. What is happening here is that the opposition are trying to prevent debate on important matters in private members' time, which is about to come up. They will not succeed.