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

The proposition that underlies the senator's question is that we should not take any action in Australia because we cannot single-handedly fix climate change. That is true. But the same proposition would apply to the coalition's policy, which costs more. The reality is, we know that the State of the Climate report has found that the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere is higher than at any other time in human history. There is a lot of science on this, Senator Joyce, and I accept it. (Time expired)