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

As you are probably aware, negotiating mandates are first signed off at the highest level of government, whether it is a coalition or a Labor government, for these sorts of major international negotiations. Our submissions to the negotiations are public. They are on the web and I think, in fact, I have had questions from your colleague Senator Milne about the detail of some of our submissions. Those submissions go in reasonably regularly. I cannot recall our most recent submission on the CDM. I do recall a range of submissions—particularly on legal structure—and a range of other matters, and the process is that those submissions are developed by government. There is the possibility of dialogue with other organisations. In fact, I have taken the opportunity to brief a range of NGOs with an interest in international matters about the most recent international negotiations. (Time expired)