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

We will do what we said we would do before the election—that is, to put this economy, which is a highly carbon intensive economy, on to an ambitious 2030 target, a 43 per cent reduction, and a 2050 target of net zero. What we will do in government is not simply rhetoric but policy that delivers it, because that is the key. We actually have to change the direction in which our economy, along with the global economy, is heading. As I said, no amount of blaming others, looking to the past and pointing the finger is going to actually achieve what is an ambitious transformation of our domestic economy and the global economy.

I wish that the world at Copenhagen had done more—I really do. It was one of the saddest moments I've ever been involved in in politics, for the reason to which you avert. But we are— (Time expired)