Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Senator, we had an election. You lost. So, having formed government, we actually take on the challenge. Confronted with massive natural disasters and the need to respond, we respond as a federal government should. We do not play politics with issues of flood levies and those sorts of responses. We respond seriously. When faced with these challenges of climate change we respond seriously. There is no substitute for hard policy work. We know that the Liberal Party is wracked by internal divisions and it cannot find a serious—