Alan Eggleston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

And in the Labor Party, indeed. Of course, Labor Party people are not allowed to express their views. They have to toe the party line or face the discipline of the party machine. There is debate in the coalition because there is debate in the community. There are differences of opinion about the causes of climate change: whether it is due to greenhouse gases or simply a manifestation of evolving change which has occurred over the millions of years that the earth has been here and has gone through cyclical climate change. The fact that there is a debate is healthy, a very healthy thing indeed.