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

I suggest that what is arrogant is going to the Australian people with a promise you will not keep. What is arrogant is going to the Australian people and telling them that you are going to have an emissions trading scheme and then walking away from them because the sceptics in your party room have you too scared to act. What is arrogant is pretending to the Australian people when you went into the last election that you wanted to take action on climate change and then refusing to do it after the election. What is arrogant is telling the Australian people that you want the government to talk to you but you are not prepared to adopt a policy and you are not prepared to put forward an amendment—you are not prepared to put anything solid forward. What is arrogant is pretending that you care about climate change and then never having the guts to stand up to the sceptics in your party room and actually deliver a result.