Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the senator for her question. It's really interesting, isn't it, that the party that believes they're the party of business, the party that believes they are the party of investment, are actually more like the old Soviet Union. They're more like the old Soviet Union, standing in the way of progress, standing in the way of the market.

Those opposite presided over nine years of division and delay and dysfunction when it comes to climate. If you talk to the Business Council of Australia, if you talk to the National Farmers Federation and if you talk to ACCI, all of them are welcoming a government that is actually prepared to give the market certainty, something you could never deliver when in government because of your deep divisions on this issue. The climate wars can end. We on this side will see that as a step forward. I know it's deeply distressing for those— (Time expired)