Peter Garrett (Kingsford Smith, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment, Heritage and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. As they vacate the parliament of Australia, I make the following point. I think I recognise the significance of the member for Bradfield’s contributions generally, but you need only to read the reports of the response to the member’s speech in the coalition party room rejecting emissions trading which ‘triggered loud applause and a cascade of supportive speakers’. I have fronted a few audiences in my time, and it is very rare that you get a standing ovation for going backwards, and that is what the coalition is doing.

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