Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Indigenous Health, Rural and Regional Health and Regional Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

It just demonstrates the truth of what I said at the outset: they are led by a cabal of sceptics and fakers. We are about to start the show season in the Northern Territory. You can understand what we are about to see. We could have this cabal of fakers standing around the parade ring being led by the Leader of the Opposition followed by his conga line—these people who are sceptics who are not prepared to act on the issue of climate change and are stalling the government’s CPRS legislation in the Senate. This is a demonstration yet again not only of their lack of understanding of their own communities, or their understanding of the regional impacts of climate change or their care for their communities but of how unfit they are to govern.

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