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

On the question the Leader of the Opposition has asked me, I say this first: how does he go before the Australian people dressed in the clothes of a Liberal leader and deny more than 20 years of Liberal engagement with the science of climate change and deny the tradition of the Liberal Party in engaging with markets? What I said to the Australian people before the last election is that climate change is real. I accept the science. It is caused by human activity. We need to act. The way to act is to introduce an emissions trading scheme, and we will get there. We will get to an emissions trading scheme, working with the parliament that the Australian people elected.

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