Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, through you, Mr President, what that question demonstrates is that those opposite have no will, no desire, no interest in acting on climate change. If they cannot see that fundamental to responding to climate change is ensuring that Australia reduces its own greenhouse gas emissions, its own contribution to carbon pollution, if they cannot see that that is required in the interest of our children and our grandchildren, in the interests of economic responsibility, then those opposite stand condemned. They have demonstrated yet again that they are not up to the hard challenges of the future. (Time expired)