Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note the minister did not actually respond to the key charge Mr Downer made. Hasn’t the government had 11 long years to respond to climate change? Why is it, after those long 11 years in office, the best the Prime Minister and the government can do is something that his own foreign minister described as a political stunt? Doesn’t this confirm again that the government is full of climate change sceptics—like the minister himself—who are incapable of taking up the serious challenge of climate change?