LNP senator Paul Scarr, who spoke after Peter Whish-Wilson immediately jumped to the defence of both Advance, and the Atlas Network:

What an extraordinary spray that was! My goodness. I’ve just gone onto the website of Atlas Network, and this is their vision; I’ll quote it for the record:
‘The Atlas Network vision is of a free, prosperous, and peaceful world where the principles of individual liberty, property rights, limited government, and free markets are secured by the rule of law’.
What an outrageous proposition, Senator Whish-Wilson!

As part of the general blurb you gave there, can I just say to my friends at the Institute of Public Affairs and the Centre for Independent Studies: what you’re doing must be working. It must be working if you have a Greens senator getting up in this place and giving you such a spray.

Keep doing what you’re doing.

When the people of Australia go to vote at the next federal election, they have every right
to know the detail of the radical, extreme Greens’ economic and social policies, because they’d have a devastating impact upon the Australian people. So more strength to your arm, I say.