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

We know there used to be bipartisan agreement on the need for a price on pollution—a price on carbon—to tackle climate change. Let us remind ourselves who was a part of that: John Howard, Peter Costello, Malcolm Turnbull and, remember, even TonyAbbott. Even Tony Abbott agreed. But as Mr Abbott made clear to Mr Turnbull last year on this issue, he is ‘a weather vane’. That is a good position for somebody who is aspiring to be the Prime Minister of this nation, ‘Hello, I am a weather vane.’