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

The answer is no. You are talking to a party that has been honest with the Australian people for over a decade; that lost government—let's be clear—about our position on climate. It has been honest with people, and in the previous term of government obviously paid a political price for holding a very clear and consistent position on climate. We have. And we went to the Australian people with a clear position about what we would do, and we will deliver it. We had a clear position on taxation, we had a clear position on climate policy, we had a clear position about utilising the safeguards mechanism, and we were up-front with the Australian people about why we wanted to do it and what we would do. So the implication that you want to make for political purposes in here—that somehow that is all untrue—is wrong. It is wrong, and it does not do you— (Time expired)