Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

No, Mr President, the heroic assumption is that at some point the opposition might actually care about the national interest. That would be an heroic assumption. The heroic assumption would be that at some point, instead of running around talking about pledges written in blood, those opposite might actually care about public policy and reform for the future. The heroic assumption might be that those on the other side, who are part of a policy to put a price on carbon, might discover their consciences at some point and recall that they went to an election promising this for the same reasons.