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Fragment    Next Fragment Wednesday, 30 August 2000 Page: 16939
Senator COOK (Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate)
(2:23 PM) —My question is to Senator Hill. Does the minister
agree with the member for Wentworth, Mr Andrew Thomson, that the
UN is `just a theme park for indulging the fantasies of the
global NGO guilt movement' and that what really gets the UN
going is `hearing these unrepresentative NGOs heap abuse on gold
plated democracies like Australia'. Minister, if you do not
agree with those words, will you repudiate those views in order
to try to limit the damage they will do to Australia's
international reputation?  Honourable senators interjecting  The
DEPUTY PRESIDENT —Order! If you want to have a conversation with
somebody, please do not do it across the chamber—go outside and
have the conversation.  Senator HILL (Minister for the
Environment and Heritage) —I thought that Senator Coo