Brown: I’ll deal with whoever is leader

Greens leader Bob Brown says he would reach a fresh arrangement with a new Labor leader should Julia Gillard be toppled.

But Senator Brown said he hadn’t been sounded out, unlike independent MP Rob Oakeshott who revealed on Monday he had been approached to assess his views on a change of leadership.

“I am not supporting a particular future leader. I have made an arrangement and signed off on it with Christine Milne with the current prime minister and treasurer in this government,” Senator Brown told ABC Television on Monday night.

“But yes, if there were a change we would expect that we’d come to an arrangement with whoever the Labor leader was.”

Following the last election, which resulted in a hung parliament, Labor negotiated with independents and Greens to form government.

Senator Brown said his intention when he signed the agreement was that Ms Gillard would be the prime minister who took the country to the next election.

He said Ms Gillard had faced attacks with a relentlessly sexist and misogynistic tone and he wasn’t alone in perceiving that.

“It’s there in media commentary. I think it’s there in the opposition’s relentless attacks,” he said.

“We didn’t see this with John Howard.

“It’s time the standards were raised just a little.”

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