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

(—) (): We think we'll respond to those disasters and tragedies—which are occurring exactly as science has predicted, and we know what happened in terms of those opposite ignoring those—by doing what we said what we would do when we were elected: having an ambitious program on climate; increasing our emissions reductions targets to 43 per cent; becoming one of just 33 countries to enshrine these targets in the law of the land; bringing back the Climate Change Authority; putting net zero in the objects of the CEFC and ARENA acts; legislating the Rewiring the Nation fund; and so much more. That is what we will do, and what we will also do is work with the Pacific in the context of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change to make sure the voices of the Pacific are elevated. That's what we will do, because we are interested in outcomes and making sure Australia contributes to the trajectory the world has to be on. (Time expired)