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

But I'm actually quite pleased with the interjections because it reminds us yet again why the frame that Senator Waters has put to me is not the answer to what we have to deal with. It is not a single industry's fault. It is not a single employer's fault. It is not a single place's fault. We have to engineer a transition of the Australian economy and the global economy, and we have to do that together and we have to do it from government.

For years, we have been arguing for this. And I am pleased that we finally have a parliament, in both chambers, which does want to act on climate. I also understand why it is that the Greens political party seeks to make this entirely about one issue.

It is about transitioning the whole of the economy, it is about reducing the emissions that we produce and it is part of doing what Minister Bowen did at the Conference of the Parties, which is: being part of a global solution to what is a global problem. And no amount of finger-pointing, domestically, for political purposes, will yield the outcome that we want. (Time expired)