Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

So undermined has the authority of the Leader of the Opposition become that, even in a debate on this matter today when the CPRS is before the Senate, we have an interjection from Liberal members opposite saying temperatures have gone down. Where is the basic consensus on the part of those opposite that we have a problem to deal with? They are still saying, as of 2009, there is not a problem. Does this not explain why for 12 years they failed to do anything? I return to the content—

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