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

I thank the honourable member for his question, and I go back, in part, to an answer I delivered to his first question, which is that if those opposite were serious in a negotiation with the government on the Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme then they would have had a policy from which to negotiate. And here we are, at this point of the process, where the government’s legislation and its plan have been before the nation for such a long period of time, and those opposite have not had a united policy position and, therefore, are in no position to negotiate with the government on any matter of substance.

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