Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The mechanisms for the community to engage in this debate include through the Climate Commission led by Tim Flannery. People will also be able to engage with Professor Garnaut, who continues to make very important contributions to our national debate and our national stream of information about climate change through his papers. The most recent one was released late last week, and I would commend it to people. So my answer is of course that we want the community to come with us on this journey. They understand climate change is real and they want to see action, and we will be explaining that action to them. You, of course, will be mired in denial and fear because that is what the coalition does.

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