Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for Groom for his question which, if I understand it right, was asking about actions of the Rudd government in 2009-10, where the opposition opposed action on climate change and were against it. They voted against any action on climate change not once but twice, along with—I'm sorry to have to raise this, but you know it's coming—the Greens political party. I just had to throw that in there. I got asked about that—it's a matter of history that it occurred.

If get this right, the criticism is about the referendum that we put to the Australian people, which those opposite promised to put to the Australian people at every election from 2007 on. Every leader of the Liberal Party, according to the Leader of the Opposition, said they would advance Constitutional recognition, but it didn't happen. They never put it to a referendum. So what we did was put it to a referendum

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