Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will take the interjection by Senator Abetz, because Senator Abetz is one of the deniers. Senator Abetz is out there saying—this is his most quotable quote on the climate—that the biggest problem we have is weeds. He says that weeds are the problem and that, if we can just fix weeds up, everything is going to be okay. I have never heard Senator Abetz make any substantial contribution on the question of climate change. Senator Abetz is one of the climate change deniers. He is one of the extremists in the coalition who rolled the former leader, Malcolm Turnbull, because he wanted to do the same as other conservative leaders around the world, such as David Cameron in the UK, have done: treat climate change as a problem that has to be dealt with. David Cameron is no relative of mine—and I am thankful for that because he is a Conservative—but he is one of these people on the conservative side who say that you have to deal with climate change. The only leader of a conservative party around the world who is a disbeliever and does not want to do anything for the future of our children in this country is the Leader of the Opposition, Tony Abbott, and he will be condemned by history for his position, because he does not care about anything other than his own position.