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

We know the major threat to action on climate change is those opposite, who do not want to do what they said they would do at the last election, who do not want to implement the policies they took to the last election and, more extraordinarily, who do not want to implement John Howard’s policy. The extraordinary thing is that we see that under Malcolm Turnbull the Liberal Party today is actually less green than John Howard. That is the extraordinary reality. The opposition is preparing to actually take a position that is less green than John Howard. So let us ask them: is it the case that you really want to say to the Australian people, ‘We are going to junk what we took to the last election, we are going to junk what Mr Turnbull told everyone we would do and we are going to junk John Howard’s own legacy’, where he said that you would implement an emissions trading scheme? (Time expired)