Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research) Share this | Hansard source

We are finding at the moment that the Leader of the Opposition has been travelling the country peddling humbug and hysteria. It has been clear that the climate change deniers, who have now seized control of the Liberal Party, are seeking to peddle doubt and uncertainty in people’s minds. We have seen that many people, including the member for Wentworth, have said the Liberal Party is currently led by people whose conviction on climate change is that it is nothing other than crap and that we do not need to do anything about it. What Mr Turnbull has been saying is that any policy that is announced will simply be a con—an environmental fig leaf to cover the determination to do nothing. So there is a very sharp contrast between the position that is taken by those on this side of the chamber, which is to defend the scientists and the rigour of the scientific method—(Time expired)