Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

I'd be pretty embarrassed about that too! And, of course, it's also due to a decade of inaction from those on the other side.

Now the Greens are faced with the same choice 14 years later, and I say to the Greens senators: do you really want to find yourself sitting next to Senator Rennick, Senator Antic, Senator Canavan, Senator Hanson, Senator Roberts and all of those other people who say that climate change isn't real? Do you really want to be sitting next to them when this comes to a vote in the next fortnight, or will you be on the right side of history? Will you listen to the appeals of groups like the Carbon Market Institute, the Investor Group on Climate Change, the Australian Conservation Foundation and the Climate Council, who all say that this whole Senate should back the safeguard mechanism? (Time expired)