BOB Brown has accepted Clive Palmer's challenge to a debate following the mining magnate's claim the Greens have ruined Tasmania.
Dr Brown has responded to Mr Palmer's call and Tasmanian senator-elect Jacqui Lambie's pledge to instigate a parliamentary inquiry into the Greens.
The Palmer United Party (PUP) is looking to build on Ms Lambie's success by running candidates in all five seats at next year's state election.
"Clive knows this: if he can get a couple of seats off the Liberals by appealing to the lowest common denominator ... then they'll go for it," the former Greens leader told ABC radio.
"I think Clive's wily enough to know that."
Dr Brown said he would debate Mr Palmer, who was elected to the seat of Fairfax in the federal election, on the future of Tasmania.
He said the arrival of PUP to the federal parliament would add to its diversity but offered Mr palmer a warning.
"Clive has to know that you simply can't purchase what you want when you get into the democratic arena," Dr Brown said.
"You do have to be transparent and you do have to act honourably and above board and that's not always the case with the world of trading and backroom deals and so-on in business."
Dr Brown was speaking from the US, where he will give evidence in the civil case brought against the Sea Shepherd conservation group by Japanese whaling interests.
The law suit is being brought against the US arm of the group and will not affect plans by Sea Shepherd Australia to take on the Japanese fleet, which claims to conduct scientific whaling.
Dr Brown, a Sea Shepherd Australia director, remains hopeful the International Court of Justice will outlaw the annual hunt before it can begin.
"The big question then is, if that happens, will the Japanese abide by the international court decision and not send the whale killing fleet south?" he said.
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