Sarah Hanson-Young (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

It was his lump of coal; his pet rock—his favourite piece of symbolism of where, apparently, the heart and soul of the coalition lies.

The former Prime Minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has belled the cat. The reason he got kicked out of the job was not because of Newspoll and was not because of other policies: it was all because of climate change. The climate change deniers still rule the roost in the coalition. Those who don't believe in science and who would prefer to put their heads in the sand live in denial while the rest of the world is saying, 'We've got to get on with it, because otherwise the planet is going to fry.'

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