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

Thank you. As I was saying, Australia will continue to play a constructive role in these negotiations. We believe action on climate change is in Australia’s national interest, and I have traversed in detail in this chamber why that is the case. There remain very strong differences of views in these negotiations. Those differences of views are not a secret. They are well known. The differences of views, whether in relation to legal structure or targets—which was one of the issues raised by Senator Milne—are well traversed and in fact can be discerned from the text on the UNFCCC website. But Australia will do what we can to get the best agreement possible at Copenhagen.