Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We also heard plenty of free advice to the Leader of the Opposition at the forum not just from Pacific leaders but from other distinguished gentleman there. For example, the Executive Director of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change Secretariat, Yvo de Boer, said:

I think it helps Australia’s credibility to say this is the target Australia is willing to commit to and this is how we are going to achieve it. That would be good for the country’s credibility.

You could learn a bit from Yvo de Boer as well. You could also learn a lot from your conservative colleague—and I choose my words carefully, Malcolm—John Key, the New Zealand Prime Minister.

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