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

That is utterly misleading, Senator Milne, and it is typical, frankly, of an approach where you try to ignore the aspects of this legislation which are ambitious. I again say to the Greens that they can take a position where they say, ‘No, we would rather have emissions grow than have emissions reduce.’ That will be a matter for them and their constituency. The government have been clear that 15 per cent is something we are prepared to put on the table but of course, as Senator Milne well knows—and she does well know this—these are exactly the sorts of issues which need to be negotiated in the context of an international agreement and we will take a constructive approach to that as we have to date. If the Greens want to play at these sorts of political games with something as important as this then that is probably something they will need to describe to their constituency.