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

It might be useful to remember and to remind those at that end of the chamber, and Senator Bernardi, that the United States in fact started a year after Australia did—in fact they are moving very fast to get to this point. I will say this: if Senator Joyce is saying to the government that he would pass an ETS after a cap-and-trade scheme has passed the US Senate then let us hear it—because I would suggest that that is not his position; his position is ‘never’.