Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The shadow minister, the great sceptic, said, ‘We should be putting more into proving up the science.’ That was his position. Then we have the member for North Sydney, who campaigns in his electorate in favour of action on climate change but does the opposite here. Then we have over there the great sceptic, ‘People Skills’, the member for Warringah, ‘Monkosaurus’, who has said:

The point I made about an emissions trading scheme is that I don’t like it one little bit.

And that was when he was advocating they should vote for it when it comes back. That was the case for voting for it when it comes back. If you had said at the beginning of this term that Unclesaurus at the back there—as he has been described by the shadow Treasurer—would be leading the debate on climate change, people simply would not have believed you. But the fact is that their disunity is having an impact on Australia. That is the great tragedy. It is holding us back from the future. The Turnbull camp are at war with the Costello camp, the Hockey camp are battling it out with the Abbott camp, the Robb camp cannot work out if it is still in the Turnbull camp and, of course, the Bishop camp has been reduced to a single tent without a pole in a very, very far corner.

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