Alicia Payne (Canberra, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Yes. This is an opposition that still don't know if they believe in climate change. This is an opposition that is suggesting a nuclear policy so ridiculous that even one of their own senators has said it is merely a political distraction. We can't risk that. When members of the Canberra community come to me, though, it is concerning that they don't always realise everything we have achieved. It is ambitious, and I will always stand for the most ambitious action on climate and protecting our environment that we can. But the fact is that it is governments—and Labor governments—that deliver that. We need a government that is committed to this, as we always have been.

I had planned to talk about all the things we have done over the years, and I'm nearly out of time, but our record speaks for itself. We are the party of environment; we always will be.

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