Sarah Hanson-Young said it was worth bringing a dead (plastic wrapped) fish into the senate chamber, even if she didn’t convince the Coalition to vote against Labor’s laws and the Greens will now use it as an election issue (the environment, not the dead senate fish):

Yes, it absolutely wasn’t the reason being, of course, this terrible law that has now passed the Parliament under 4 hours from the moment it was introduced was being done under the cover of the Federal Budget. The Federal Government, the Labor Party, didn’t want people to know they were doing this. They wanted it rammed through while everybody was distracted on their budget night announcements. So, you know, we have at least put the spotlight on what’s happened. This is really bad. This is a bad law that is now going to mean that, you know, when there are activities underway that are trashing the environment, that are pushing animals to extinction, that the Environment Minister no longer has the power to step in and say, “Hang on a minute, we got to have a look at this and we have to make sure we can look after the environment and stop or modify the dangerous and damaging activity.” This is a gut to Australia’s environment protections, and what it means is that Australia’s environment laws are now worse than they were when the Labor Party came to office and that is absolutely shameful. It’s going to be an election issue. The environment is a major concern to Australians and we’re going to take this fight all the way to the ballot-box.