Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate, Vice-President of the Executive Council, Minister for Arts and Attorney-General) (15:07): Unfortunately I am aware of contrary views, and I hasten to add that I do not understand any view to the contrary being held by the official opposition in this place, because they are responsible enough to deal with these matters in a bipartisan fashion. The same cannot be said of course of the Greens and, in particular, Senator Ludlam, who yesterday published an article describing the traitor Snowden as 'a whistleblower whom I hold in extremely high regard'. Senator Abetz: Shame! Senator BRANDIS: That is, as Senator Abetz says, a shameful matter. I might direct Senator Ludlam to an article published by the respected journalist Edward Lucas yesterday in the American Spectator in which he pointed out that Snowden answers none of the descriptions of a whistleblower: he has not exposed grave criminal wrongdoing; he has not minimised danger to public safety; and he has published way beyond what he claims to be necessary— (Time expired)