Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Acting Deputy President Chapman, I do not mind people interjecting, but Senator Bernardi actually has not stopped interjecting for the last five minutes. If he wants to do that for the entirety of my speech, I am happy to continue to talk over him, but I would suggest that if he has something worthwhile to say—which is very unlikely in this debate—perhaps he could get up and give his own speech on it, because I would quite like to hear from Senator Bernardi, one of Senator Minchin’s acolytes, who does not believe that climate change has been impacted by human activity.

I would like to get him to stand up in the Senate and say that, because if it does not have anything to do with human activity, if human activity has not impacted on climate change, tell me what the Prime Minister was doing at APEC, Senator Bernardi. Why did he do that? If your thesis is correct and human activity has had nothing to do with global warming, which is the thesis of you and Senator Minchin, what was the Prime Minister doing? Because on that basis, the Prime Minister was just engaged in a huge PR exercise to deal with voters’ concerns.