Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

There are many on that side of the House who now clearly do not accept the science of climate change and do not accept the economics of dealing with climate change. We had a conservative politician in the country in the last few days—Lord Deben. Lord Deben described climate change sceptics as ‘oddballs’. The problem the coalition has is that the oddballs have taken over. The oddballs—the climate change sceptics—have taken over on that side of the House but only 18 months ago they did accept the science of climate change. Now they do not. We had the Leader of the Opposition say only in the last week or so:

… the so-called settled science of climate change isn’t always quite what it’s claimed to be.

So there he was, outing himself as a climate change sceptic. We know that he thinks that climate change is crap.

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