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

I make this point: we continue to lead on political donation reform. I understand JSCEM is looking at this issue, and I also understand and am told that donations were taken by the Greens political party from a professional gambler and a pastoral company backed by one of South Africa's richest men. But you want to lecture us about this and make imputations that the Labor Party, which went to the Australian people with a very clear policy position and which is now implementing that policy position—you now want to say for political purposes that that's corrupt. Well, you know what? I actually think that all of the Australians who voted for climate action and all of the Australians who voted for the ambitious position that we went to the election with deserve a Greens political party that might actually back in legislation that delivers on that ambition, rather than taking pot shots from that corner yet again.